<p class="reg-lead">The Statutes of the International Handball Federation, as amended at the Ordinary Congress in Cairo and in force from 21 March 2026.</p>
<table class="reg-facts">
<tr><td>Adoption</td><td><b>21 December 2025</b> at the Ordinary Congress in Cairo — in force from <b>21 March 2026</b></td></tr>
<tr><td>Structure</td><td>Chapter I of the International Handball Federation's body of regulations</td></tr>
<tr><td>Status</td><td><strong>Current version</strong> — supersedes the edition of 3 October 2019</td></tr>
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<div class="reg-sec">
<h2>What is the place of the Statutes?</h2>
<p>The regulations of the International Handball Federation (IHF) form a set of numbered chapters, and the Statutes stand at the head of that set as Chapter <strong>I</strong>. The structure of the organs, the membership of national federations, the jurisdiction of the adjudicatory bodies and the final avenue of appeal are all determined in this document; the other chapters are drafted within its framework and refer back to its articles.</p>
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<div class="reg-sec hi">
<h2>Key changes in this edition<span class="reg-tag">compared with the edition of 3 October 2019</span></h2>
<ol class="reg-tl">
<li><b class="t">Establishment of the Handball Court of Arbitration (IHCA)</b>Article 23 has changed the final avenue of appeal: once the federation's internal stages are exhausted, a final IHF decision may be challenged before the <strong>Handball Court of Arbitration (IHCA)</strong>, seated in <strong>Basel, Switzerland</strong>, rather than before the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS). Two exceptions remain: doping cases are heard by the <strong>CAS Anti-Doping Division</strong>, and disputes relating to the Olympic Games are heard exclusively by <strong>CAS in Lausanne</strong>. Cases commenced before CAS prior to the establishment of the IHCA are concluded there.</li>
<li><b class="t">Age cap of 75</b>A candidate for an office that carries membership of the Executive Committee must not have reached the age of <strong>75</strong> at the time of election.</li>
<li><b class="t">Redefinition of the adjudicatory bodies</b>The term “legal bodies” replaces the previous arrangement: the Arbitration Commission, the Arbitration Tribunal and the Ethics Commission are designated “adjudicating bodies”, while the Disciplinary Commission and the Jury are designated “disciplinary bodies”, active only during events. The powers of these bodies do not limit the disciplinary powers of the Congress and the Council.</li>
<li><b class="t">Expanded scope of jurisdiction</b>The exclusive jurisdiction of the IHF bodies now extends beyond players, officials and national federations to <strong>clubs, players' agents and coaches</strong>.</li>
<li><b class="t">Oversight of national federation governance</b>Any amendment to a national federation's statutes must be submitted for approval to both the IHF and the relevant continental confederation before it is put to that federation's general assembly. An elective assembly must be notified to the IHF in advance, and its results must be reported together with the required documentation — including the minutes of the assembly, confirmation from the National Olympic Committee and the list of board members. The IHF may appoint an observer to report on the conduct of the assembly to the Head Office.</li>
<li><b class="t">Definition of “exceptional circumstances”</b>The IHF's power to install a provisional committee in a national federation remains in place, but this edition enumerates its instances for the first time: where the lawfulness of an election is contested and the National Olympic Committee refuses to recognise the results on grounds the IHF accepts; where a majority or all of the board members resign without timely replacement; where the elective assembly fails to reach a quorum in the absence of internal rules; and where a majority or all of the board members are sentenced to imprisonment or banned from handball activities by a court or arbitral body.</li>
<li><b class="t">Expulsion from membership and suspension</b>Expulsion from membership is now effected <strong>at the request of the Council</strong> and follows “serious and/or repeated” violations. The Council's power of immediate suspension is limited to national federations, and a suspension must be put to a vote at the next Congress; the Council may also refer a stakeholder's case to the Ethics Commission.</li>
<li><b class="t">Electronic meetings</b>Any IHF organ may hold meetings and take decisions remotely — by telephone, video or any other suitable electronic means.</li>
<li><b class="t">Manipulation of results and betting</b>All stakeholders are required to comply with the rules on the manipulation of results, collusion and betting as set out in the ethics regulations.</li>
<li><b class="t">Rules of the Game and wheelchair handball</b>The Rules of the Game for wheelchair handball, in both six-a-side and four-a-side formats, have been added to the list of regulations, and the Beach Handball and Wheelchair Handball Working Groups, alongside the Playing Rules and Referees Commission, may approve the trial application of amended rules. Changes published on 1 March may be applied in IHF competitions before their general entry into force on 1 July.</li>
<li><b class="t">Commercial rights</b>In the list of events in which the IHF is the original owner of the rights, <strong>electronic sports</strong> has taken the place of beach handball competitions.</li>
</ol>
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<div class="reg-sec">
<h2>Who these changes matter to</h2>
<p>The most significant practical effect is the change of the final appellate forum. A dispute that previously went to CAS once the internal stages were exhausted is now heard — except in doping matters and Olympic events — by the Handball Court of Arbitration in Basel; the procedure, the time limits and the foreseeable costs of a case therefore change.</p><p>For national federations, the new obligations to give notice of elective assemblies and to submit statutory amendments for prior approval are duties whose breach can lead to IHF intervention; and the list of “exceptional circumstances” is the first clear criterion for assessing such intervention.</p>
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IHF Statutes 2026

<p class="reg-lead">Redline edition of the FIBA General Statutes — differences between the 3 June 2021 and 16 May 2025 editions.</p>
<table class="reg-facts">
<tr><td>New edition</td><td><b>16 May 2025</b></td></tr>
<tr><td>Previous edition</td><td>3 June 2021</td></tr>
<tr><td>Structure</td><td>33 pages — marked-up text</td></tr>
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<div class="reg-sec">
<h2>What is a redline edition?</h2>
<p>When the Statutes are revised, FIBA publishes, alongside the final text, a version in which <strong>deleted text and inserted text appear side by side</strong>. This document covers the transition from the 3 June 2021 edition to the current 16 May 2025 edition.</p>
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<h2>Practical use</h2>
<ol class="reg-tl">
<li><b class="t">Rapid identification of changes</b>Instead of comparing two 33-page texts, the changes are visible directly — including the renumbering of articles, which matters for citation.</li>
<li><b class="t">Determining the governing edition</b>Where an event occurred on the boundary between the two editions, this document shows whether the provision relied upon existed in the earlier edition.</li>
<li><b class="t">No coverage of the 2017 edition</b>This comparison begins in 2021; no redline document has been published for the differences in the 5 May 2017 edition, a copy of which is also available on this site.</li>
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<div class="reg-sec">
<h2>Who this document matters to</h2>
<p>For any citation of an article of the Statutes in cases relating to the years 2021 to 2025. The full text of the current edition is also available on this site.</p>
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FIBA General Statutes Redline — 2021 vs 2025

<p class="reg-lead">The General Statutes of the International Basketball Federation, edition of 16 May 2025.</p>
<table class="reg-facts">
<tr><td>In force</td><td><b>16 May 2025</b></td></tr>
<tr><td>Structure</td><td>33 pages — the constitutive instrument of the world federation</td></tr>
<tr><td>Status</td><td><strong>Current edition</strong> — supersedes the edition of 5 May 2017</td></tr>
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<div class="reg-sec">
<h2>What the Statutes determine</h2>
<p>The General Statutes stand at the head of the FIBA regulations, and the six Books of Internal Regulations are drafted within their framework. Their subject matter is the composition and purpose of the federation, the membership of national federations and their rights and obligations, the suspension and expulsion of members, and the structure of the organs: the Congress and the President, the Central Board, the Executive Committee and the Treasurer, the Secretariat, the Zones, the Regional Offices and the Commissions.</p>
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<div class="reg-sec hi">
<h2>Structure of this edition<span class="reg-tag">Changes from the edition of 5 May 2017</span></h2>
<ol class="reg-tl">
<li><b class="t">Specialised Commissions</b>Articles 21 to 27 define seven commissions: Technical, Competitions, <strong>Legal</strong>, Three-on-Three, Players, Finance and Medical.</li>
<li><b class="t">Zones</b>Articles 17 and 18 determine the FIBA Zones and their organisation — the same structure regulated in detail by Book Five of the Internal Regulations. FIBA Asia falls under this structure.</li>
<li><b class="t">Clubs and leagues</b>Article 12 clarifies the position of clubs, other bodies and leagues within the structure of the federation.</li>
<li><b class="t">Recognised organisations</b>Chapter Four enumerates the officially recognised organisations, including the <strong>International Wheelchair Basketball Federation</strong> and the <strong>International Basketball Federation for the Deaf</strong>.</li>
<li><b class="t">Suspension and expulsion</b>Article 10 regulates the conditions for the suspension and expulsion of members, and Article 11 the dissolution of a member national federation.</li>
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<div class="reg-sec">
<h2>Who this document matters to</h2>
<p>For national federations, Articles 8 and 9 (rights and obligations of members) and Article 10 (suspension and expulsion) determine the relationship with the world federation. A comparative version of these Statutes showing the differences from the edition of 3 June 2021 is also available on this site.</p>
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FIBA General Statutes 2025

<p class="reg-lead">Executive regulation on paragraph (T) of Article 78 of the Seventh Development Plan Act, adopted by the Council of Ministers on 6 April 2025 — the mechanism for developing the sport economy and attracting non-governmental sponsors.</p>

<table class="reg-facts">
<tr><td>Adoption</td><td><b>6 April 2025</b> — Council of Ministers</td></tr>
<tr><td>Notification</td><td>13 April 2025 — No. 7731/T63825H</td></tr>
<tr><td>Legal basis</td><td>Paragraph (T) of Article <b>78</b> of the Seventh Five-Year Development Plan Act — adopted 2024</td></tr>
<tr><td>Implementing authorities</td><td>Ministry of Sport and Youth, Ministry of Economy, Plan and Budget Organisation</td></tr>
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<h2>What these regulations determine</h2>
<p>Paragraph (T) of Article 78 of the Seventh Development Plan Act mandates the development of the sport economy and the encouragement of non-governmental sponsors; these regulations are the mechanism for implementing that paragraph. Their subject matter is to determine the route and the conditions under which the private sector may benefit from the support measures provided for in sport.</p>
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<div class="reg-sec hi">
<h2>The most recent document in this field</h2>
<p>Among the regulations on the sport economy, this is the most recent document, and for that reason it takes priority in determining the current status of support measures. Earlier regulations — including the regulations on support for knowledge-based production in the field of sport adopted in 2022 — continue to be read, but what governs today's contracts and applications are the regulations made under the Seventh Development Plan.</p>
<p>For sponsors of sport, the provisions on incentives are of direct importance: how the sponsorship is calculated, which authority confirms it, and the conditions whose non-fulfilment may cause the incentive to lapse.</p>
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<div class="reg-sec">
<h2>Who this document matters to</h2>
<p>Clubs and companies sponsoring sport, financial directors of federations, and lawyers working on sports sponsorship contracts.</p>
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<h2 class="law-heading">Full text of the regulations</h2>

<p class="law-p">Adopting authority: Council of Ministers, Sunday 6 April 2025</p>
<p class="law-p">Special issue no.: 1972, year eighty-one, no. 23326</p>
<p class="law-p">Executive regulation on paragraph (T) of Article (78) of the Seventh Five-Year Development Plan Act of the Islamic Republic of Iran (concerning the development of the sport economy and the attraction and encouragement of non-governmental sponsors to operate in the country's sport sector)</p>
<p class="law-p">No. 7731/T63825H, 13 April 2025</p>
<p class="law-p">Ministry of Sport and Youth — Ministry of Economic Affairs and Finance</p>
<p class="law-p">Plan and Budget Organisation of the country</p>
<p class="law-p">At its session of 6 April 2025, on the proposal of the Ministry of Sport and Youth and the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Finance and pursuant to paragraph (T) of Article (78) of the Seventh Five-Year Development Plan Act of the Islamic Republic of Iran, adopted in 2024, the Council of Ministers adopted the executive regulation on that paragraph as follows:</p>
<p class="law-p">Executive regulation on paragraph (T) of Article (78) of the Seventh Five-Year Development Plan Act of the Islamic Republic of Iran</p>
<p class="law-p">(concerning the development of the sport economy and the attraction and encouragement of non-governmental sponsors to operate in the country's sport sector)</p>
<p class="law-p">Article 1 — In these regulations, the following terms have the meanings set out below:</p>
<p class="law-p">1 — The Act: the Seventh Five-Year Development Plan Act of the Islamic Republic of Iran, adopted in 2024.</p>
<p class="law-p">2 — The Organisation: the Plan and Budget Organisation of the country.</p>
<p class="law-p">3 — Covered persons: non-governmental natural or legal persons.</p>
<p class="law-p">4 — Tax credit: the amount deductible from the finally assessed performance tax of covered persons, in respect of the year in which the expenditure is made or subsequent years.</p>
<p class="law-p">Article 2 — One hundred per cent (100%) of the cash and non-cash expenditure of persons covered by these regulations for the purpose of assisting in the realisation of the programmes of the Ministry of Sport and Youth, the National Olympic and Paralympic Committees and the sports federations, with a view to the quantitative and qualitative development of construction infrastructure and the holding of and participation in national and international sporting events, solely in respect of current appropriations (with the exception of chapters 1 and 6) and appropriations for the acquisition of capital assets set out in the annual budget acts, shall, upon notification by the Ministry of Sport and Youth and confirmation by the Organisation and in compliance with the provisions of these regulations, be treated as a tax credit of the said persons.</p>
<p class="law-p">Article 3 — The Ministry of Sport and Youth is required to publish on its official information portal, by the end of Farvardin each year, the list of expenditure headings and capital-asset acquisition projects covered by these regulations that have been confirmed by the Organisation.</p>
<p class="law-p">Article 4 — The tax credit is deductible each year up to a ceiling of one per cent (1%) of the finally assessed income tax of the said persons, on a collective-expenditure basis and after being entered into account with the Treasury General of the country.</p>
<p class="law-p">Article 5 — The tax credit shall not be subject to the prompt-payment award under Article (190) or to the compensation and refund under Article (242) of the Direct Taxation Act adopted in 1987 as subsequently amended, nor to set-off against debts of years prior to the entry into force of the Act.</p>
<p class="law-p">Article 6 — Expenditure which, in implementation of these regulations, is deducted as a tax credit from the finally assessed tax of the year in which the expenditure is made or of subsequent years (at the latest until the end of the period of implementation of the Act), shall not again be accepted as tax-deductible expenditure.</p>
<p class="law-p">Article 7 — The Organisation is required to provide the Iranian National Tax Administration with the total confirmed expenditure of covered persons in each financial year, at the latest two months after the end of each year. The said administration is required to verify the expenditure declared by covered persons by examining valid expenditure documents within the framework of the relevant regulations, and to treat the final amount of expenditure as a tax credit in compliance with the provisions of these regulations. In the event of a false declaration regarding the expenditure incurred (as determined by the Iranian National Tax Administration), the covered persons shall be deprived of the tax credit, and the said administration is obliged to claim the tax credit granted together with the applicable legal penalties.</p>
<p class="law-p">Article 8 — The Organisation is required to provide for the collective-expenditure budget line covered by these regulations and to determine its ceiling within the annual budget, and to record an amount equal to the tax credit granted under these regulations in each year as performance of the Iranian National Tax Administration.</p>
<p class="law-p">First Vice-President — Mohammad Reza Aref</p>
<p class="law-p">There is no attached file.</p>

Executive regulation on sport economy under the Seventh Development Plan — 2025

<p class="reg-lead">Regulation on supporting knowledge-based production and employment generation in the field of sport and youth, adopted by the Council of Ministers on 5 March 2023 — the framework for state support of the sports economy, in 13 articles.</p>

<table class="reg-facts">
<tr><td>Adoption</td><td><b>5 March 2023</b> — Council of Ministers</td></tr>
<tr><td>Notification</td><td>11 March 2023 — No. 235109/T60786H</td></tr>
<tr><td>Constitutional basis</td><td>Article <b>138</b> of the Constitution</td></tr>
<tr><td>Structure</td><td><b>13 articles</b> — full text below on this page</td></tr>
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<div class="reg-sec">
<h2>What this regulation determines</h2>
<p>The instrument was drawn up in implementation of the slogan of the year and the policies supporting knowledge-based production, and determines the framework for cooperation between government bodies for the development of the sports economy. The range of its addressees shows that the subject matter is not purely sporting: the Ministry of Sport and Youth alongside the Ministries of Industry, Mine and Trade, of Economic Affairs and Finance, of Cooperatives, Labour and Social Welfare, of Culture and Islamic Guidance, of Education and of Foreign Affairs, the Plan and Budget Organisation, the Vice-Presidency for Science and Technology, the national broadcaster, the Central Bank, the Innovation and Prosperity Fund, and the Chamber of Commerce.</p>
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<div class="reg-sec hi">
<h2>Why it matters to clubs and sports companies</h2>
<p>The forms of support envisaged in regulations of this kind — facilities, exemptions, priority in transfers of assets and export support — can in practice be claimed only upon satisfaction of the conditions and through the channels laid down in this text.</p>
<p>For companies manufacturing sports equipment and for start-ups in the sports sector, this instrument is the starting point of any assessment: which body is responsible, what conditions are required, and where an application begins.</p>
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<div class="reg-sec">
<h2>Who this document matters to</h2>
<p>Clubs, manufacturing and knowledge-based companies in the sports sector, and corporate lawyers working on the preparation of applications for support or on challenges to their rejection.</p>
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<h2 class="law-heading">Full text of the regulation</h2>

<p class="law-p">No. 235109/T60786H, 11 March 2023</p>
<p class="law-p">Ministry of Sport and Youth — Ministry of Cooperatives, Labour and Social Welfare</p>
<p class="law-p">Ministry of Industry, Mine and Trade — Ministry of Economic Affairs and Finance</p>
<p class="law-p">Ministry of Cooperatives, Labour and Social Welfare — Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance — Ministry of Foreign Affairs</p>
<p class="law-p">Ministry of Education — Plan and Budget Organisation of the country</p>
<p class="law-p">Vice-Presidency for Science, Technology and the Knowledge-Based Economy of the President</p>
<p class="law-p">Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting — Central Bank of the Islamic Republic of Iran</p>
<p class="law-p">Innovation and Prosperity Fund — Iran Chamber of Commerce, Industries, Mines and Agriculture</p>
<p class="law-p">The Council of Ministers, at its session of 5 March 2023, on the proposal No. 100/1682/S/1401 dated 15 December 2022 of the Ministry of Sport and Youth, and pursuant to Article 138 of the Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Iran, adopted the Regulation on supporting knowledge-based production and employment generation in the field of sport and youth as follows:</p>
<p class="law-p">Regulation on supporting knowledge-based production and employment generation in the field of sport and youth</p>
<h3 class="law-art" id="m-1"><a class="law-anchor" href="#m-1" aria-label="Link to Article 1">#</a><span class="law-num">Article 1</span></h3>
<p class="law-p">In this Regulation, the following terms have the meanings set out below:</p>
<p class="law-p">1. Ministry: the Ministry of Sport and Youth.</p>
<p class="law-p">2. Vice-Presidency: the Vice-Presidency for Science, Technology and the Knowledge-Based Economy of the President.</p>
<p class="law-p">3. Knowledge-based companies: companies falling within the scope of the Law on Support for Knowledge-Based Companies and Institutions and the Commercialisation of Innovations and Inventions — adopted in 2010 — and its subsequent amendments.</p>
<p class="law-p">4. Technology units: research, technology, engineering and production units located in parks and incubators holding a permit from the relevant authorities.</p>
<p class="law-p">5. Knowledge-based products: goods and services listed in the list of knowledge-based goods and services under the Law on Support for Knowledge-Based Companies and Institutions and the Commercialisation of Innovations and Inventions — adopted in 2010 — and its subsequent amendments.</p>
<p class="law-p">6. Technology event: an event held for the purpose of presenting technological needs, identifying the relevant solutions and developing technological and commercial cooperation between organisations, institutions, knowledge-based companies and technology units connected with the field of sport and youth.</p>
<h3 class="law-art" id="m-2"><a class="law-anchor" href="#m-2" aria-label="Link to Article 2">#</a><span class="law-num">Article 2</span></h3>
<p class="law-p">The Ministry is required, in cooperation with the Vice-Presidency and the Ministry of Cooperatives, Labour and Social Welfare, to design and implement capacity-building programmes for knowledge-based companies and technology units in the field of sport and youth, to hold skills-training and employability courses based on knowledge-based services and products, and to hold knowledge-enhancement workshops for non-governmental organisations active in the field of sport and youth and for other stakeholders in this field.</p>
<h3 class="law-art" id="m-3"><a class="law-anchor" href="#m-3" aria-label="Link to Article 3">#</a><span class="law-num">Article 3</span></h3>
<p class="law-p">The Ministry is required, in cooperation with the Vice-Presidency and drawing on the capacity of the National Olympic and Paralympic Committee and the sports federations, to identify and present technological needs in the field of sport and youth, to support the production of related knowledge-based products and services by domestic knowledge-based companies and technology units, and to hold national, regional and provincial technology events.</p>
<h3 class="law-art" id="m-4"><a class="law-anchor" href="#m-4" aria-label="Link to Article 4">#</a><span class="law-num">Article 4</span></h3>
<p class="law-p">The Ministry is required, in cooperation with the Ministries of Industry, Mine and Trade, of Economic Affairs and Finance and of Cooperatives, Labour and Social Welfare and with the Innovation and Prosperity Fund, and in compliance with the applicable laws and regulations, with the aim of reducing dependence on imports, to identify imported sports products and to support knowledge-based companies and technology units in producing those products.</p>
<p class="law-p">Note 1. The Ministry is required, with the aim of developing the sports industry, to procure annually at least ten percentage points (10%) of the imported knowledge-based sports products required by its subordinate and related units which have no domestic equivalent, in compliance with the applicable laws and regulations, through domestic knowledge-based companies and technology units.</p>
<p class="law-p">Note 2. For the purpose of implementing this Article, the Ministry shall, where necessary, amend the relevant instructions and propose amendments to the relevant regulations to the competent authorities.</p>
<p class="law-p">Note 3. The Ministry is required, in cooperation with the Vice-Presidency, to establish priorities for the manufacture of knowledge-based sports products and products incorporating new technologies.</p>
<h3 class="law-art" id="m-5"><a class="law-anchor" href="#m-5" aria-label="Link to Article 5">#</a><span class="law-num">Article 5</span></h3>
<p class="law-p">With a view to fostering a culture of skills training and employability among young people, the Ministry is required, in cooperation with the Ministries of Culture and Islamic Guidance and of Cooperatives, Labour and Social Welfare and with Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting, to support the production of content in the fields of skills training, employability, business, and familiarity with knowledge-based companies and technology units in the field of sport and youth.</p>
<h3 class="law-art" id="m-6"><a class="law-anchor" href="#m-6" aria-label="Link to Article 6">#</a><span class="law-num">Article 6</span></h3>
<p class="law-p">With the aim of securing a place in international chains, increasing the market volume of production and developing exports in the field of sport, the Ministry is required, in cooperation with the Ministry of Industry, Mine and Trade, the Central Bank of the Islamic Republic of Iran, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Vice-Presidency, the Iran Chamber of Commerce, Industries, Mines and Agriculture and other executive bodies as the case may be, to support, create the groundwork for and develop the export of knowledge-based sports products to neighbouring and target countries, and likewise to support private-sector investment in selected products and driver chains in those countries.</p>
<h3 class="law-art" id="m-7"><a class="law-anchor" href="#m-7" aria-label="Link to Article 7">#</a><span class="law-num">Article 7</span></h3>
<p class="law-p">The Ministry is required to make use of the capacity of the services of knowledge-based companies and of youth non-governmental organisations and popular associations for the purpose of equipping and launching rural sports houses and training the specialist personnel required in the field of sport and physical activity.</p>
<h3 class="law-art" id="m-8"><a class="law-anchor" href="#m-8" aria-label="Link to Article 8">#</a><span class="law-num">Article 8</span></h3>
<p class="law-p">The Ministry is required, before the end of the year, to send the following year's programmes together with a performance report for the past year concerning support for knowledge-based companies and technology units active in the field of sport and youth, in compliance with the executive regulation of paragraph (b) of Article (1) of the Law on the Leap in Knowledge-Based Production, being the subject of approval No. 160716/T60029H dated 23 November 2022, to the Steering Council for Knowledge-Based Technologies and Products for approval.</p>
<h3 class="law-art" id="m-9"><a class="law-anchor" href="#m-9" aria-label="Link to Article 9">#</a><span class="law-num">Article 9</span></h3>
<p class="law-p">The Ministry is required, in compliance with paragraph (b) of Article (1) of the Law on the Leap in Knowledge-Based Production — adopted in 2022 — and with the aim of completing and developing the said value chains, facilitating investment and enhancing the technological and production capabilities for strategic items inside the country, to support the domestic production of installations, systems, networks and imported knowledge-based products related to the field of sport and youth, with priority for the various types of artificial turf, hall flooring, sports balls, bicycles, sports sticks and video assistant referee (VAR) technology.</p>
<h3 class="law-art" id="m-10"><a class="law-anchor" href="#m-10" aria-label="Link to Article 10">#</a><span class="law-num">Article 10</span></h3>
<p class="law-p">The Ministry is required, in cooperation with the Vice-Presidency and with the participation and investment of the non-governmental sector, and with the aim of improving the quality of domestically produced knowledge-based products in the field of sport and youth, to take the following measures:</p>
<p class="law-p">1. Providing evaluation and testing services for domestically manufactured products and services and assisting in obtaining international standards for knowledge-based products and services in the field of sport and youth.</p>
<p class="law-p">2. Supporting the establishment and launch of at least three evaluation laboratories, with priority for doping testing, product certification and research and development.</p>
<p class="law-p">Note. The Vice-Presidency is obliged to treat the cost of launching the laboratories under this Article as a tax credit, in accordance with the Law on the Knowledge-Based Leap — adopted in 2022 — and the relevant laws and regulations.</p>
<h3 class="law-art" id="m-11"><a class="law-anchor" href="#m-11" aria-label="Link to Article 11">#</a><span class="law-num">Article 11</span></h3>
<p class="law-p">The Ministry is required, in cooperation with the Vice-Presidency, to support businesses active in the field of soft technologies related to the Ministry's areas of activity, with priority for sports law, sports advertising and marketing, related cultural and social matters, and the enhancement of knowledge-based governance.</p>
<h3 class="law-art" id="m-12"><a class="law-anchor" href="#m-12" aria-label="Link to Article 12">#</a><span class="law-num">Article 12</span></h3>
<p class="law-p">The Ministry of Education is required, in cooperation with the Ministry and the Vice-Presidency, to take the following measures:</p>
<p class="law-p">1. To design and put in place, within two years, a system for identifying sporting talent from kindergarten and primary school onwards.</p>
<p class="law-p">2. To support the establishment of schools and technical colleges connected with knowledge-based products and services in the field of sport and youth, on the basis of the spatial planning agreed between the aforementioned ministries and in compliance with the relevant laws and regulations.</p>
<p class="law-p">Note. The Ministry is required to nominate world medallists and sporting elites for admission to the relevant technical colleges and schools.</p>
<h3 class="law-art" id="m-13"><a class="law-anchor" href="#m-13" aria-label="Link to Article 13">#</a><span class="law-num">Article 13</span></h3>
<p class="law-p">The Ministry is required, in cooperation with the Plan and Budget Organisation of the country, to provide for the credits required for implementation of the Regulation in the annual budget bills, in compliance with the applicable laws and regulations.</p>
<p class="law-p">First Vice-President — Mohammad Mokhber</p>

Regulation supporting knowledge-based production and employment in sport — 2023

Statutes of the National Olympic Committee of the Islamic Republic of Iran — 2021

<p class="reg-lead">The Constitution and By-Laws of the International Weightlifting Federation, adopted by the Constitutional Congress on 29 August 2021 in Doha and in force from 31 August 2021 — an instrument rewritten in the wake of the federation's governance crisis.</p>

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<tr><td>Adoption</td><td><b>29 August 2021</b> — Constitutional Congress, Doha, Qatar</td></tr>
<tr><td>In force from</td><td><b>31 August 2021</b></td></tr>
<tr><td>Drafting</td><td>Reform and Governance Commission of the International Weightlifting Federation</td></tr>
<tr><td>Length</td><td><b>135 pages</b> — the Constitution together with the By-Laws</td></tr>
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<h2>What is this document?</h2>
<p>This document is the Constitution and By-Laws of the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF): both the federation's foundational instrument and the body of rules applied under it, in a single volume. The legal nature of the federation, its objectives, the conditions of membership for national federations, the governing organs and the decision-making mechanism, elections, and the ethics and disciplinary organs are all determined here.</p>
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<h2>Why this edition is of particular importance</h2>
<p>This text is the product of the <strong>"Constitutional Congress"</strong>, and its drafting was undertaken by the "Reform and Governance Commission" — two names that themselves explain the context. In the preceding years, weightlifting had been under heavy pressure from the International Olympic Committee on account of doping cases and governance failings, and the sport's place in the Olympic Games was in doubt.</p>
<p>The federation's response was to rewrite its foundational instrument: strengthening the independence of the judicial and disciplinary organs, redefining the conditions for candidacy and elections, and separating functions more clearly. The Ethics and Disciplinary Commission, which had previously operated under the federation's management, acquired a more independent position in this structure — a matter set out in detail in the Interim Ethics and Disciplinary Commission Regulations.</p>
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<h2>Who this document matters to</h2>
<p>The Weightlifting Federation of the Islamic Republic of Iran is bound to observe the framework of this document in drawing up its own statutes and in holding its elections, and the conditions of membership, suspension and eligibility of candidates derive from it. For sports lawyers, this edition is the reference point for cases arising after 2021: any challenge to the competence of a decision-making organ or to the electoral process must be measured against the text of this Constitution and not against earlier editions.</p>
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