Clubs not ready for football violence provisions

 

THE HOUSE Legal Affairs Committee yesterday discussed a proposal to postpone certain provisions of the law dealing with football violence, as many stadiums have stated that they are not ready for the new season.

The Committee is heading toward postponing for a year the provisions that have to do with closed circuit surveillance systems and the stadiums’ town-planning licensing.

It emerged that three of the first division championship teams’ stadiums had no town-planning licences – Paralimni Municipal Stadium, Antonis Papadopoulos Stadium in Larnaca and Amochostos Stadium in Larnaca.

Amochostos and Ethnikos Achnas’ stadiums also don’t have CCTV, which is also demanded by the law.

The committee asked the Cyprus Football Association (CFA) to prepare a list of all the shortcomings that stadiums have and which ones can be covered by August 1, when the law must be enforced. The CFA said that this list would be ready Monday at the latest, so the Committee can reach final decisions at its next sitting on Wednesday.

 

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