Abstract

Law No. 30-09 on physical education and sports proclaims democratic and transparent governance for Moroccan sports associations and federations, and entrusts the federations with the execution of a public service mission. Fifteen years after its promulgation, this study questions not the content of the law but its state of completion. Based on the texts published in the Official Bulletin and their implementing regulations — first and foremost the model statutes, a decisive yet doctrinally neglected normative level — it establishes that the normative edifice has remained formally unfinished. Four structural deficiencies are identified: a legal corpus scattered across several layers of texts, without codification; incomplete regulatory implementation, some implementing texts remaining unpublished fifteen years after their legal authorization; references to legislation that has since changed without the law being updated; and a final normative level — the general and internal regulations of federations, where the most operational rules reside — which no provision requires to be published. Correcting these deficiencies falls essentially within the remit of the regulatory power; codification, as recommended by the Economic, Social and Environmental Council, would require the intervention of the legislator.

Keywords

sports law; Law No. 30-09; model statutes; implementing regulations; statutory cross-reference; codification; Morocco.