The draft bill on the Cuban Sports System, the first of its kind to regulate everything related to this activity in the country, will be submitted to experts' consultation from December 12 to February 15.

Havana, Cuba. The process aims to improve the draft by involving selected audiences, agencies from the Central State Administration, and selected mass and social organizations.

In a press conference, the first vice president of the Cuban Sports Institute (INDER), Raúl Fornés, said that the population could also participate by email and telephone to suggest additions, modifications, or deletions to the text.

INDER Legal Director Karel Pachó, in turn, explained that the draft bill's fundamental objectives are to establish and regulate the foundations, scopes, goals, principles, and components, as well as the organization and operation of the Cuban Sports System. Also, among its functions, it regulates the rights and duties of all participating subjects, including non-systematic practitioners, high-performance athletes, leaders, sports technical personnel, judges and referees, volunteers, and sports glories and personalities.

Pachó added that this exercise is a genuine expression of the democratic and participatory nature of the revolutionary State in the process of elaboration of legal norms, in this case, the first Sports Law in Cuba’s history. (PL)