Grup Mediapro has accused the Royal Spanish Soccer Federation (RFEF) of “unjustifiably” delaying the decision for a brand new VAR service contest, and of “masking up” the one-year extension to the present supplier, and introduced that it’s going to do “all the things no matter is of their energy” to defend their pursuits.
In an announcement, Mediapro recalled that two and a half months after the Business Court docket quantity 2 of Madrid ordered the RFEF to droop the VAR award contest and name a brand new one, the RFEF has introduced that stated contest will probably be held within the first half of September.
In his opinion, the RFEF has “unjustifiably delayed” the decision for the brand new contest with the intention to lengthen the contract with the present supplier for an additional 12 months, “harming, as soon as once more, the pursuits of Grup Mediapro.”
“With these methods, the RFEF has achieved what it supposed from the start, to proceed awarding Hawkeye the VAR companies of the Spanish league. With this conduct, the RFEF contravenes the spirit of the decide’s choice that in his order dated 21 April made it clear that “the reality is that on this case there are causes of urgency that advise adopting the measure” which established that the RFEF ought to chorus from “awarding any of the Blocks which are the item of the Tender for the availability of the arbitration help service to by means of video and for the availability of the technical tools needed for the service”.
With the delay in calling the brand new contest, the RFEF has “covertly awarded yet another 12 months of contract to the present supplier.”
“This critically harms the rights of Grup Mediapro. The group will defend its rights, because it has been doing up to now, in opposition to these unjustified discriminations by the RFEF and which have been sanctioned on a number of events by the courts of justice,” he stated. .
Mediapro identified that in March 2022, the RFEF was already sentenced to pay 2.1 million euros “for abuse of a dominant place” by excluding it from the service award competitors.
