(Reuters) The Financial Times newspaper reported over the weekend that the Commission had launched a preliminary investigation into the sale with Commission spokesman Luc Veron stating: "We have asked for some information from the Premier League."
He gave no further details about the Commission's concerns.
In reponse Premier League spokesman Philip French stated: "The simple fact is that Brussels have asked the Premier League for formal notification of our broadcasting deals. It's a formal procedure. There has been no case launched into the Premier League."
"We have got the top broadcasting lawyers money can buy and they have carefully constructed every element of this broadcasting deal with the competition authorities in mind and have kept them informed all the way through."
The Premier League said they had ensured a wide range of programming for television viewers including subscription-based live games, free-to-air highlights and pay-per-view matches.
The newspaper reported that the Commission feared that the current system - which gives the league control over the sale of the television rights - could harm competition among broadcasters and reduce consumer choice.
The Premier League said in June last year it would pocket £1.645 billion ($2.35bn/B2.65) from the sale of broadcast rights to its games including £1.11bn ($1.59bn/B1.77bn) from satellite broadcaster BSkyB for live rights.
If the Commission ruled the system was anti-competitive, it could demand changes in marketing of television rights when the next contract is awarded in 2004-5.
In July this year the European Commission warned soccer's European governing body UEFA that the way it sold broadcast rights to the Champions League could be illegal and called on it to open up the process to more television stations.
The English Premier League has denied that the European Commission was investigating last year's sale of television rights to England's top-flight soccer matches.
