Ricerc@Sapienza

The essay deepens the theme of conclusion and Termination of Employment Relationship in Professional Sports, analyzing Special Regulations and Particular Protection Requirements, the Need of a Critical Re-assessment of the Idea of Autonomy of Sport, Professional Sport Activity as an Employment Relationship: A Controversial Issue; Work Conditions and Forms of Protection, Between General Labour Law Rules and Sport Specificity; Termination of the Contract: A Border Area Between Specificity and Labour Law General Rules

The paper, starting from the consideration of the growing rediscovery of the contractual instrument as a form of protection of the agricultural part of the market, in the light of the withdrawal of the former massive EU intervention on the agricultural market since the 2003 CAP reform, examines the EU discipline on the support to clusters and networks in the framework of the rural development policy, evaluated by EU legislator as instruments to stimulate in order to enable the participating agricultural enterprises to strengthen their competitiveness on the market.