APPENDIX 5
Memorandum from the Royal Netherlands
Football Association (WP12)
With reference to your letter of 4 August 1999
I would like to inform you as follows.
In the Netherlands it is for an employer forbidden
to let a foreigner (who is not an EEA national) work without a
work permit.
On the ground of the Dutch law it is not the
foreigner who needs the work permit but his employer. The foreigner
has to have a permit to stay in Holland.
The criteria for the clubs in Holland to get
a work permit for a player who is a non EEA national are the following:
1. Salary criterion
The salary that the concerning player gets paid
has to be in conformity with the market for professional football
in the Netherlands. This means that the guaranteed salary has
to be at least 150 per cent of the average salary in the KPN Telecompetition
(premier league). For players in the age group of 18 till 20 years
the guaranteed salary has to be 75 per cent of the average salary
in the KPN Telecompetition.
At the moment the average salary in the KPN
Telecompetition is NLG 389,782.66.
2. Quality criterion
The concerning player has to have played on
a regularly basis in a competition which is at least comparable
with the Dutch KPN Telecompetition or who has proven in an other
way that he has certain qualities, for example because he took
part in the World Championship Football.
If the above mentioned criteria are fulfilled
the employer (usually) will get the work permit. I hope to have
informed you sufficiently. In case you need more information,
please do not hesitate to contact me.
ROYAL NETHERLANDS FOOTBALL ASSOCIATION
September 1999
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