National Sports Council (C.S.D.) (Madrid)

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Sports Act 10/1990, of 15 October, defines the National Sports Agency (Consejo Superior de Deportes - CSD) as an Autonomous Administrative Body, attached to the Ministry of Education and Science, through which the State Administration operates in the field of sport.

Powers

The powers of the National Sports Agency are:

* To authorise or revoke the constitution with due justification and to approve the statutes and regulations of Spanish Sports Federations.
* To recognise, to the intents and purposes of this Act, the existence of a sporting discipline.
* To establish, in conjunction with the Spanish Sports Federations, their objectives, sports programmes (especially in high-level sport), their budgets and organic/functional structures, subscribing to the corresponding agreements. These agreements will be of a legal-administrative nature.
* To grant economic subsidies due to Sports Federations and other Sporting Bodies and Associations, carrying out inspections and verifying that they comply with the aims set out in the current legislation.
* To classify official, professional, state competitions.
* To promote and propel scientific research in the field of sport, in accordance with the criteria established in the General Promotion and Coordination Act for Scientific/Technical Research.
* To promote and propel measures to prevent, control and repress the use of prohibited substances and illegal methods aimed at artificially enhancing athletes’ physical capacity or at modifying competition results.
* To act in coordination with the Autonomous Regions regarding general sporting activity and to cooperate with these regional governments in the development of the powers vested in them through their respective statutes.
* To authorise or deny, with prior agreement from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the celebration of official, international sporting events in Spain, as well as the participation of Spanish teams in international competitions.
* To coordinate school and university sports programmes with the Autonomous Regions, when they have national or international influence.
* To design and put into practice, in collaboration with the Autonomous Regions and, where relevant, local Bodies, plans for the construction and improvement of sports facilities for the development of high-level sport, as well as to update, within the field of its powers, the technical regulations in existence regarding this type of facilities.
* To draw up proposals to establish minimum educational content for qualifications for specialised sports coaches.
The Agency should also help in the establishment of study programmes and plans relative to said qualifications, accrediting authorised centres to impart the courses, and monitoring the development of training programmes in those Autonomous Regions that have not assumed powers in the field of education.
* To authorise pluriannual spending of the Spanish Sports Federations as anticipated in the regulation, to determine where the net assets of these federations should go, in case of their liquidation, to control the grants that would have been awarded to them and to authorise the taxing and disposal of their real estate when the federations have been fully or partially financed by public state funds.
* To permanently update the census of sports facilities in collaboration with the Autonomous Regions.
* To authorise the inscription of Sports Companies in the Sports Associations Register, independent of their inscription in the registers of the corresponding Autonomous Regions.
* To authorise the inscription of the Spanish Sports Federations in the corresponding international Sports Federations.
* To collaborate in the field of the environment and countryside protection with other, corresponding public bodies and with the Federations that are specifically linked with them.
* Any other faculty attributed by law or through the regulations that contributes to achieving the goals and objectives set out in current legislation.

(Sports Act/10/90, of 15 October, Art.8)