"Uefa is planning to give clubs more time to resolve potential multi-club ownership (MCO) issues next season following the controversy that led to Crystal Palace being expelled from the Europa League last summer. In a proposed change to its regulations discussed with elite clubs at last week's meeting of the newly named European Football Clubs in Rome, Uefa is set to relax the 1 March deadline, which Palace failed to meet last season in an oversight that led to the FA Cup winners losing their Europa League place to Nottingham Forest. Under the new rules any club in contention for European qualification the following season would still be required to highlight any potential MCO issues to Uefa by 1 March, but would then be given additional time at the end of the season to resolve any problems if multiple clubs in the same ownership group have qualified for the same competition. With the draws for the qualifying rounds of the Europa League and Conference League taking place in June, the final deadline for resolving any MCO clashes would be put back to the start of that month."
"The standard mechanism for avoiding a MCO breach is to set up a blind trust to manage one club, as Manchester City and Manchester United have done in the past with Girona and Nice, but Palace and Lyon failed to make such provisions last season. Uefa's initiative is a response to a tumultuous summer dominated by MCO disputes particularly the Palace saga, which saw Forest give evidence against their Premier League rivals at the disciplinary hearing and in their subsequent appeal to the court of arbitration for sport in Lausanne. Elsewhere, League of Ireland side Drogheda and Dunajska Streda, from Slovakia, were expelled from European competition altogether after qualifying for the Conference League, alongside clubs from the same ownership group."
UEFA will relax the 1 March deadline for clubs to flag potential multi-club ownership (MCO) issues while still requiring notification by that date for any club in contention for European qualification. Clubs that flag potential MCO problems will receive additional time at the end of the domestic season to resolve clashes if multiple clubs in the same ownership group qualify for the same competition. The final deadline for resolving MCO clashes will move to early June, before qualifying-round draws. Failure to flag issues by 1 March will remain a breach of the rules. Blind trusts remain the standard mechanism to avoid MCO breaches.
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