The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) is competent to settle sport-related disputes and handles close to 1,000 cases per year. The cases handled by CAS range from disciplinary cases, eg doping, match fixing and other alleged breaches of sports regulations, and contractual disputes, eg disputes between sports clubs and athletes and between sports clubs and federations. The framework for CAS' competence, as well as provisions on procedures, deadlines, etc is regulated in the CAS Code. CAS may operate as an ordinary arbitration tribunal in sports-related disputes, pursuant to Article R38 of the CAS Code. However, CAS may also serve as an appeals body in cases that have been dealt with by other bodies in previous instances, pursuant to Article R47 of the CAS Code. In practice, the vast majority of cases handled by CAS are appeal proceedings.CAS awards are, in principle, final, pursuant to Article R46(3) of the CAS Code for cases that fall under the ordinary arbitration provisions, and Article R59(4) of the CAS Code for cases that are