MISSION AND ROLE
4 The mission of FIBA is to promote the sport of basketball throughout the world and to lead the basketball movement as recognised by the International Olympic Committee. FIBA’s role is to:
a. Control, regulate, supervise and direct, and to foster, encourage and advance the sport and practice of basketball in every country worldwide;
b. Manage basketball throughout the world through participation, development, competition, and commercial means; c. Ensure that basketball throughout the world is carried on in a manner that allows the sport to be competitive and fair;
d. Formulate or adopt and implement appropriate policies in relation to discrimination, sexual harassment, equal opportunity, equity, drugs and doping, health, safety, infectious diseases, and such other matters as arise from time to time as issues to be addressed in basketball;
e. Adopt, formulate, issue, interpret, implement and amend from time to time such rules (including the official rules of the game) and regulations as are necessary for the control and conduct of basketball throughout the world;
f. Allocate and control the conduct and administration of all official international competitions at national team and club level;
g. License and/or endorse the conduct and management of international basketball competitions or games where this is in the interests of furthering its mission and role;
h. Establish and maintain a FIBA basketball judicial system, providing processes for the appeal of decisions and the settlement of disputes;
i. Pursue itself or through another entity commercial arrangements, including sponsorship and marketing opportunities and commercial arrangements in relation to FIBA’s intellectual property, as are appropriate to further its mission and role;
j. Provide for the representation of FIBA at international events, which will extend and enhance its control and management of basketball throughout the world;
k. Promote the recognition of basketball as one of the world’s leading sports;
l. Do all that is reasonably necessary to enable its mission and role to be achieved and to enable the national member federations to receive the benefits that FIBA’s mission and role are intended to achieve;
m. Co-operate with, join with, and/or support any association, organisation, foundation, society or individual where the activities or purposes are similar to those of FIBA or that advance basketball throughout or in specific parts of the world;
n. Have regard to the public interest in its operations;
o. Promote the participation of women at all levels of basketball governance; and
p. Undertake and/or do all such things or activities as are necessary, incidental or conducive to the advancement of its mission and role.