The PRC General Administration of Sports (the “GASC”) recently released the Measures for the Administration of the Blacklist of the Sports Market (the “Measures”), which provide that an operating entity or participant in the sports industry who commits any of the following eight circumstances such as doping, serious safety accidents and “enforcement by a People’s Court for losing credits” among others will be placed in the sports market blacklist.

According to the Measures, the GASC is the entity that enacts guidelines and oversees the implementation of the Measures. The sport administrative authorities of the provincial people’s governments are responsible for implementing the blacklist system by establishing a review and adjudication committee for the blacklisting of sports market participants that will deliberate and compile the blacklist, determine publication deadlines, accept the statements and arguments of interested parties, etc.

Article 5 of the Measures clearly sets forth the circumstances to be included in the blacklist of the sports market, including six specific offences and two general “catch-all” clauses. Of course, the circumstances defined by Article 5 of the Measures will not be included in the blacklist without legal measures such as administrative action and court adjudication. The GASC will publish the local blacklist of the sports market throughout China in a special column of its official website. The duration of inclusion in the blacklist will vary from 3 to 36 months, depending on the degree of seriousness of the offenses that led to the blacklisting.  

(Source: http://www.sport.gov.cn/)