Select Committee on Education and Employment Appendices to the Minutes of Evidence


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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