Sport federations, sport acttivity, and natural environment: What is new about the viability of delegated public functions

Abstract

SUMMARY:

The increase of people who decide to use the Protected Natural Spaces (PNE) in their leisure time, is increasing every day, highlighting among those who choose the sport for non-competitive purposes, but for pleasure and recreation, becoming a qualified user, to which the new sports legislation, as in the case of the Law 5/2016, of July 19, of the Sport of Andalusia, allows it to belong to a sports federation, not only with the traditional federative license, dedicated to official competitive sport, but also with an enabling title for leisure athletes. With this new inclusion of athletes in the federative structures, sports associations are trengthened, so sports federations related to sports in the natural environment can collaborate in the protection and conservation of the environment, by incorporating these activities in the field of delegated public functions, attending a new administrative control technique different from the police, and through regulated self-regulation for certain activities and in certain places of the PNE.