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Table 1.

Selection of the board chair

Chair’s electoral procedure	Italy	Portugal	Spain	Turkey	UK
Regulation	Legislative Decree of 23 July 1999, no. 242	Juridical Regime of Sports Federations	Order ECD/2764/2015, of 18 December	Regulation on the Election of Federation Presidents of the General Directorate of Sports, approved on 12 February 2009 and updated on 25 December 2012	NGB’s Articles of Association (AoA)
Election procedure	Democratic secret vote by the members of the General Assembly (GA)	Democratic secret vote by the members of the GA	Democratic secret vote by the members of the GA	Democratic secret vote by the members of the relevant federation (the maximum member numbers who vote is 100 for one federation) approved by the General Directorate of Youth and Sports	Democratic election by the board and a nomination committee, chaired by an Independent Non-Executive Director
Years of office	4	4	4	4	3–4

Chair’s electoral procedure	Italy	Portugal	Spain	Turkey	UK
Regulation	Legislative Decree of 23 July 1999, no. 242	Juridical Regime of Sports Federations	Order ECD/2764/2015, of 18 December	Regulation on the Election of Federation Presidents of the General Directorate of Sports, approved on 12 February 2009 and updated on 25 December 2012	NGB’s Articles of Association (AoA)
Election procedure	Democratic secret vote by the members of the General Assembly (GA)	Democratic secret vote by the members of the GA	Democratic secret vote by the members of the GA	Democratic secret vote by the members of the relevant federation (the maximum member numbers who vote is 100 for one federation) approved by the General Directorate of Youth and Sports	Democratic election by the board and a nomination committee, chaired by an Independent Non-Executive Director
Years of office	4	4	4	4	3–4

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