BOOK II: PLAYERS IN SPORT

A sports association or company referred to in Articles L. 122-1 or L. 122-2 may enter into a contract with a professional athlete or trainer whom it employs relating to the commercial exploitation of his/her image, name or voice. In the performance of the contract referred to in the first paragraph of this article, professional athletes and trainers may not be considered to be linked to the association or sports…

A professional athlete who participates freely, on his own behalf, in a sporting competition is presumed not to be bound to the organiser of the competition by a contract of employment. The presumption of salaried status provided for inarticle L. 7121-3 of the French Labour Code does not apply to an athlete whose conditions of practice are defined in the first paragraph of this article.

The provisions of Articles L. 8241-1 and L. 8241-2 of the French Labour Code do not apply to the transaction referred to in this paragraph when it concerns an employee of a sports association or a company referred to in Articles L. 122-2 and L. 122-12 of this code made available to the relevant delegated sports federation as a member of a French team, under the conditions defined by the…

The payment provided for in Article L. 6331-6 of the Labour Code is not due in the event of a fixed-term contract concluded in application of Article L. 222-2-3 of this Code.

Article L. 7124-9 of the Labour Code applies to remuneration of any kind received for the practice of a sporting activity by children aged sixteen and under who are subject to compulsory education. The conclusion of a contract either relating to the practice of a sporting activity by a minor, or the cause of which is the practice of a sporting activity by a minor, does not give rise to…

Breaches of the rules on remuneration mentioned in the first paragraph of article L. 222-5 are punishable by a fine of €7,500. A repeat offence is punishable by six months’ imprisonment and a fine of €15,000.

The activity of bringing together, for remuneration, the parties interested in concluding a contract either relating to the exercise of a sporting or training activity for remuneration, or which provides for the conclusion of an employment contract having as its object the exercise of a sporting or training activity for remuneration, may only be exercised by a natural person holding a sports agent’s licence. The licence is issued, suspended and…

A sports agent may set up a company or be an agent of a company in order to carry out his profession.

No person may obtain or hold a sports agent’s licence : 1° If he exercises, directly or indirectly, in law or in fact, on a voluntary or remunerated basis, sports management or training functions either in an association or company employing sportsmen and sportswomen for remuneration or organising sports events, or in a sports federation or a body that it has set up, or if he has been required to…

No person may exercise, directly or indirectly, in law or in fact, on a voluntary or remunerated basis, sports management or training functions either in an association or company employing sportsmen and women for remuneration or organising sports events, or in a sports federation or a body set up by it if he or she has exercised the profession of sports agent during the previous year. No person may be…