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UEFA Financial Fair Play: the savior of football or the road to the next Bosman-ruling?
Det styrande organet i europeisk fotboll, UEFA, har nyligen introducerat Financial Fair Play-regler som en del av det sedan tidigare existerande Club Licensing-systemet. KÀrnan i Financial Fair Play reglerna Àr ett break-even-krav som tvingar de europeiska fotbollsklubbarna att leva efter sina resurser. Uppsatsens syfte Àr att analysera om Financial Fair Play-reglerna Àr förenliga med EU-rÀtten. Av sÀrskilt intresse Àr EU-rÀttens konkurrensrÀttsliga regler, som Äterfinns i Artikel 101 FEUF och Artikel 102 FEUF, samt regeln gÀllande fri rörlighet för arbetstagare, som Äterfinns i Artikel 45 FEUF. För att genomföra analysen pÄ ett relevant sÀtt har sportrelaterad praxis legat i fokus och studerats ingÄende, eftersom principerna om EU-rÀttens relation till sport endast kan utlÀsas frÄn nÀmda praxis. Dessa principer har sedan tillÀmpats pÄ Financial Fair Play-reglerna. I uppsatsen dras slutsatsen att Financial Fair Play-reglerna förmodligen skulle klara Wouters-testet och dÀrmed inte utgöra en konkurrensbegrÀnsning under Artikel 101(1) FEUF. PÄ samma sÀtt skulle reglerna förmodligen vara objektivt försvarbara gÀllande den fria rörligheten för arbetstagare och dÀrför vara förenliga med Artikel 45 FEUF. Om Financial Fair Play-reglerna inte skulle klara Wouters-testet sÄ skulle de ha en god chans att möta kriterierna för det undantag som Äterfinns i Artikel 101(3) FEUF. Dock skulle de i sÄ fall ÀndÄ inte vara förenliga med Artikel 45 FEUF. Vidare sÄ bör Financial Fair Play-reglerna inte utgöra missbruk av en dominerande stÀllning under Artikel 102 FEUF. Det ska dock pÄpekas att man bör vara försiktig med att dra definitiva slutsatser i sÄdana hÀr fall, eftersom förenligheten med EU-rÀtten gÀllande regler utfÀrdade av styrande sportorgan mÄste undersökas ifrÄn fall till fall, dÄ ett proportionalitetstest Àr ett utav nyckelverktygen. Trots att Financial Fair Play-reglerna troligtvis Àr förenliga med EU-rÀtten Àr det problematiskt att reglerna förmodligen inte kommer att förbÀttra konkurrensen mellan klubbarna. Förhoppningsvis kommer detta att ÄtgÀrdas i framtiden, till exempel genom att reglerna kompletteras med fler ÄtgÀrder.The governing body of European football, UEFA, recently adopted the Financial Fair play rules as part of the previously existing Club Licensing system. The core provision of the Financial Fair Play rules are the break-even requirement, which forces the European football clubs to live within their means. The purpose of the thesis is to analyze whether the Financial Fair Play rules are compatible with EU law, especially the competition provisions, regulated in Articles 101 TFEU and 102 TFEU and the free movement of workers, regulated in Article 45 TFEU. In order to make this analyze, sport-related case law has been emphasized and thoroughly examined, since the principles of EU sports law can only be derived from said case law. These principles have then been applied to the Financial Fair play rules. The thesis concludes that the Financial Fair Play rules would probably pass the Wouters test and thereby they would not constitute a restrictive agreement within the meaning of Article 101(1) TFEU. Also, on the same merits, the rules would probably meet the objective justification grounds regarding free movement of workers and therefore be compatible with Article 45 TFEU. If the Financial Fair Play rules would not pass the Wouters test, they would have a good chance of gaining exemption under Article 101(3) TFEU but they would still be deemed incompatible with Article 45 TFEU. Furthermore, the Financial Fair Play rules are not likely to constitute abuse of a dominant position, and therefore they are not prohibited by Article 102 TFEU. However, the thesis also concludes that one should be vary of drawing definite conclusions in these matters, since the compatibility with EU law of rules issued by sport governing bodies must be examined on a case by case basis, with a proportionality test being one of the key features. Even though the Financial Fair Play rules likely are considered to be compatible with EU law, it is problematic that they supposedly will not promote competitive balance. Hopefully, that issue will be addressed in the future, for example by complementing the rules with other measures
Symmetric invariant manifolds in the Fermi-Pasta-Ulam lattice
The Fermi-Pasta-Ulam (FPU) lattice with periodic boundary conditions and
particles admits a large group of discrete symmetries. The fixed point sets of
these symmetries naturally form invariant symplectic manifolds that are
investigated in this short note. For each dividing we find degree
of freedom invariant manifolds. They represent short wavelength solutions
composed of Fourier-modes and can be interpreted as embedded lattices with
periodic boundary conditions and only particles. Inside these invariant
manifolds other invariant structures and exact solutions are found which
represent for instance periodic and quasi-periodic solutions and standing and
traveling waves. Some of these results have been found previously by other
authors via a study of mode coupling coefficients and recently also by
investigating `bushes of normal modes'. The method of this paper is similar to
the latter method and much more systematic than the former. We arrive at
previously unknown results without any difficult computations. It is shown
moreover that similar invariant manifolds exist also in the Klein-Gordon
lattice and in the thermodynamic and continuum limits.Comment: 14 pages, 1 figure, accepted for publication in Physica
Ultrafast band-gap renormalization and build-up of optical gain in monolayer MoTe
The dynamics of band-gap renormalization and gain build-up in monolayer
MoTe is investigated by evaluating the non-equilibrium Dirac-Bloch
equations with the incoherent carrier-carrier and carrier-phonon scattering
treated via quantum-Boltzmann type scattering equations. For the case where an
approximately fs-long high intensity optical pulse generates
charge-carrier densities in the gain regime, the strong Coulomb coupling leads
to a relaxation of excited carriers on a few fs time scale. The pump-pulse
generation of excited carriers induces a large band-gap renormalization during
the time scale of the pulse. Efficient phonon coupling leads to a subsequent
carrier thermalization within a few ps, which defines the time scale for the
optical gain build-up energetically close to the low-density exciton resonance.Comment: This is a post-peer-review version of an article published in
Physical Review
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