With a view to ensuring the long-term future of sports associations and companies, promoting respect for sporting fairness and contributing to the economic regulation of competitions, federations which have set up a professional league shall set up a body within their federation or league with independent powers of assessment, empowered to refer matters to the competent disciplinary bodies and with the following remit:
1° To ensure the administrative, legal and financial control of sports associations and companies which are members of the federation or professional league or apply for membership of the federation or league;
2° Ensuring financial control of the activities of sports agents;
3° monitoring and assessing proposed purchases, disposals and changes of shareholders in sports companies.
Inspections of sports associations and companies may be carried out on the basis of documentary evidence and on site. Where the sports association or company is required to have its accounts certified by a statutory auditor, it shall forward the statutory auditor’s report on its annual accounts to the body referred to in the first paragraph without delay. When a statutory auditor initiates a warning procedure pursuant to Articles L. 234-1 or L. 234-2 of the Commercial Code, the company or association shall inform the body mentioned in the first paragraph of this Article without delay.
Sports agents, sports associations and companies, as well as the bodies of federations and their professional leagues, are required to provide the body mentioned in the same first paragraph with any information or documents necessary for the performance of its duties. This body may also ask any natural or legal person with any legal connection whatsoever with the sports association or company to provide it with any information or document necessary for the performance of its duties.
The records of decisions of the body referred to in the said first paragraph are made public. Each year, within nine months of the end of the sporting season as determined by the regulations of the federation or, where applicable, the professional league, this body draws up a public report outlining its activities.