The FIFA Executive Committee approved the Regulations on Working with Intermediaries on 21 March 2014, effective from 1 April 2015. Although the football world has had a year to brace itself for change the legal effects remain uncertain.

The enactment of the new FIFA RWI delegates all power to NAs. Much of this power is unregulated, giving domestic NAs the autonomous legal authority to regulate as they see fit. This unregulated power will lead to a fragmented and asymmetrical regime where unfettered powers in the hands of NAs will unnecessarily complicate transactions of an international dimension. FIFA’s choice to delegate this power to National Associations is questionable as football is a global business.

FIFA has justified the overhaul on the basis that it is more effective to regulate the actual activity than to control its access[1]....

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