In exercise of the powers conferred by Article 10.2.b) of Law 10/1990, of 15 October, of the Sport, the Commission of the Council of the High Sports Council in its session of 23 December 2015, has approved definitively the amendment of Articles 5, 42 and the addition of the fourth additional provision of the Statutes of the Royal Spanish Football Federation, authorizing their registration in the Register of Sports Associations.

In compliance with the provisions of article 31.7 of the Law of Sport and article 12.3 of Royal Decree 1835/1991 of 20 December, on Spanish sports federations and the Register of Sports Associations, I have the publication of the amendment of the Statutes of the Royal Spanish Football Federation, contained in the Annex to this Resolution.

Madrid, March 4, 2016. -President of the Superior Council of Sports, Miguel Cardenal Carro.

ANNEX

Statutes of the Royal Spanish Football Federation

Article 5. Powers exercised by delegation of the High Council of Sport.

1. In addition to those provided for in the previous article as activities of the RFEF, the RFEF exercises, under the coordination and supervision of the Higher Sports Council, the following administrative functions:

(a) Qualify and organise, where appropriate, official activities and competitions at the State level.

For these purposes, the organisation of such competitions is understood as referring to the regulation of the general framework of these competitions, as set out in the relevant federal rules.

b) To act in coordination with the Federations of autonomy for the general promotion of its sports modality and the specialties that it comprises, in all the national territory.

c) Design, develop and implement, in collaboration, in their case, with the autonomic Federations, the plans of preparation of the high level footballers, as well as participate in the elaboration of the annual lists of the same.

d) Collaborate with the State Administration and the Autonomous Communities in the training of special-regime sports teaching technicians and in the prevention, control and repression of the use of substances and groups prohibited pharmacological and non-regulatory methods in sport.

e) Organising or tutoring official international competitions to be held in the territory of the State.

f) Exercise the disciplinary authority of sport, in the terms established in the legislation in force, the present Statutes, the Disciplinary Code and the General Regulation.

g) Exercise control of grants to associations and sports entities under the conditions set by the High Council for Sport.

h) Execute, if applicable, the resolutions of the Administrative Court of Sport.

2. The acts performed by the RFEF in the performance of the functions referred to in the preceding paragraph may be appealed to the High Council of Sport, whose resolutions shall exhaust the administrative route.

Article 42. The disciplinary regime.

1. The field of sports discipline in the case of activities or competitions at the state level and, where appropriate, international, or affecting persons participating in them, extends to violations of rules of the game or competition and rules Sports general typified in Law 10/1990, of 15 October, of the Sport, the Organic Law 3/2013, of 20 June, of protection of the health of the athlete and the fight against doping in the sport, the Law 19/2007, of July 11, against the violence, racism, xenophobia and intolerance in sport, Royal Decree 1591/1992, of 23 December, on Sports Discipline and other provisions of development of these, and in these Statutes.

2. The disciplinary regime in the RFEF shall be regulated, through a Code approved for the purpose by the Delegated Commission.

In case of imposition of sanctions on sports discipline, the membership of the federation implies the acceptance and free assumption by all the subjects to the sports discipline, of the fact that the sanctions will be object of due publicity.

3. Regardless of the exercise of the disciplinary powers that are themselves of the federative bodies of this nature, they correspond to the RFEF, by itself or through the organ in which it delegates, the following competencies:

(a) Suspend, bring forward or delay parties and determine the date and, where appropriate, place of which, for reasons of regulatory reasons, reasons of force majeure, or provision of the competent authority, cannot be held on the day established in the official calendar or in the own sports facilities.

For the purposes provided for in the previous paragraph, a prior report of the LNFP will be requested, which will not be binding.

(b) Deciding on the termination, interrupted or otherwise concluded, when any circumstance has prevented its normal termination, and, in the event of an agreement on its continuation or new conclusion, whether or not it will be on the ground neutral and, in either case, behind closed doors or with possible public access.

c) To resolve the continuation or not of a suspended encounter for having left one of the teams with less than seven players, according to that circumstance is due to fortuitous causes or to the commission of antisports facts May, in the second case, declare a winner to the innocent club.

d) to decide, in all instances of repetition of meetings or continuation of meetings, on the payment of the expenses that it determines, declaring to whom it corresponds such a pecuniary responsibility.

e) Set a uniform time for the beginning of the matches corresponding to the same day, when their results may have influence for the general and definitive classification.

f) Designate, ex officio or at the request of interested parties, federative delegates for the meetings.

g) Resolver, also of trade or complaint or complaint, any questions affecting the final classification and the situations arising therefrom, such as promotions, descents, promotions and rights to participate in other international, national or territorial competitions.

(h) Resolver who should fill vacancies occurring in the different divisions for reasons beyond the final classification, in the cases and form provided for in Article 105 of the General Regulation.

i) How much, in general, affects the competition subject to your jurisdiction.

Additional provision fourth.

The Royal Spanish Football Federation, in accordance with the provisions of the International Convention against the Doping of UNESCO, in the anti-doping regulations of the International Federation, as well as in the World Anti-Doping Code, The Commission shall inform the Spanish Agency of Health Protection in Sport of the penalties imposed by the Commission on doping offences provided for in the Organic Law No 3/2013 of 20 June 2013 on the protection of the health of the athlete and the fight against doping in sport, for his publication through the website of the Superior Council of Sports to be the organ of the disciplinary authority in the field of doping, contrary to the Organic Law 15/1999 the subsequent processing of the published data, by any subject other than the High Sports Council.

The publication shall contain only the data relating to the infringer, the sporting specialty, the infringement, the sanction imposed, and only where the substance consumed or the substance is absolutely essential. method used.

It will only be possible to publish sanctions that are firm on the administrative basis, and no such publication can occur before.

The maximum period during which the data may be published shall never exceed the time for the suspension or deprivation of the federal license.

Resolutions adopted in the procedures for the imposition of disciplinary sanctions for doping dealt with by the Sports Discipline Committee of this Federation, in their field of competence, should include the notification the person concerned that, if a disciplinary sanction has been imposed, the disciplinary sanction shall be published on the Internet, in the terms indicated in this provision and in accordance with the provisions of Article 5 of Organic Law 15/1999.