Focus on sports, auditing and civil service bills

TDT | Manama

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Three draft laws will be on the Shura Council’s agenda today, including changes to Bahrain’s sports professionalism rules that would give national federations wider scope on technical matters while keeping them bound by domestic law.

Members are due to review a Youth Committee report supporting Decree-Law No. 40 of 2025, which amends Law No. 8 of 2021 on sports professionalism.

The decree-law aims to cement respect for the technical independence of sports federations, keep a single national rulebook by assigning the task of issuing general rules for the professionalism system to the President of the General Sports Authority, and deal with matters linked to professional athletes’ contracts and transfers.

Freedom

The committee recommended backing the decree-law, saying it balances federations’ technical freedom with legal duties under Bahrain’s laws.

It said different sports have different technical and competitive needs, and argued federations should be able to draft and issue professionalism regulations and manage contracts and transfers without cumbersome central procedures or prior approvals that, in practice, have slowed progress.