Sull’invalidità delle clausole compromissorie contenute negli statuti delle federazioni sportive - Corte App. Bruxelles, 29 agosto 2018, n. 6348

The article aims at giving an insight of the decision rendered by the Court of Appeal of Brussels in the case n. 6348/2018. In this controversy, the Belgian court has established, incidentally, that the sport arbitration agreement was invalid (rectius, inexistent) in light of Belgian law, even though, in our opinion, it was not Belgian law that should have been applied. The issue of the law applicable to the arbitration agreement represents a good starting point in order to take into consideration the backlash against sport arbitration within – particularly – the European Union and the ECHR framework.