LEGAL SPORTS ASPECTS OF THE LAW ON SPORT IN ALBANIA

Abstract

The right to sport in Albania is a relatively late developed right for reasons related to the evolution itself and the organization of the state over the years. The reasons for this phenomenon are mostly related to the fact that the state has played a minimal role in undertaking enterprises and initiatives in the context of its promotion or improvement. Given all the factors that have contributed to the gaps in sports legislation in our country, we note that they have been the determinants of the slow development of all sports activities and consequently of the frequent occurrence of conflicts in most cases from the participants in these 
activities. Due to the fact that sport is one of the most important rights for the affirmation of the individual as a human being, it enjoys special protection by the legislator, which is defined in the country's 
basic act as the Constitution, which stipulates that1: “The state, within its constitutional powers and the means at its disposal, aims to supplement private initiative and responsibility with the development of sport and recreational activities”. Based on this provision, we can say that the 
right to sport is developed primarily by the state, which through its mechanisms plays an essential role in defining long-term policies aimed at promoting and protecting effectively all sporting activities. One of the main mechanisms the state uses in promoting sport is through the 
drafting and improvement of a regulatory legal framework that aims to cover and regulate in a broad field all aspects dealing with sport and its development. Therefore, for the very importance it represents, the treatment and interpretation of the constitutional legal framework of sports legislation in our country will be the focus of this paper. Consequently we will be able to deal with a comprehensive analysis of sports legislation, given that in Albania the new law on sport has just been adopted.