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Chapter I: The French National Olympic and Sports Committee

Article R141-1 of the French Sports Code

The French National Olympic and Sports Committee carries out activities of common interest on behalf of or with the federations, while respecting the prerogatives granted to each of them by the present code. It is involved in the promotion of the various sporting disciplines in the programmes of audiovisual communication companies.

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Article R141-2 of the French Sports Code

The French National Olympic and Sports Committee has exclusive responsibility for constituting, organising and leading the French delegation to the Olympic Games and multi-sport competitions sponsored by the International Olympic Committee. On the proposal of the federations concerned, it registers athletes and then signs them up definitively.

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Article R141-5 of the French Sports Code

Referral to the committee for conciliation is an obligatory prerequisite to any contentious appeal, when the dispute arises from a decision, whether or not subject to internal appeal, taken by a federation in the exercise of public prerogatives or pursuant to its articles of association.

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Article R141-6 of the French Sports Code

Where the dispute arises from an individual decision, the enforcement of that decision is suspended from the date of notification to the author of the decision of the document appointing a conciliator. However, the chairman of the conciliators’ conference may lift the suspension if the contested decision is motivated by acts of gross violence. The suspension of the contested individual decision ends with the notification of the conciliation measures provided…

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Article R141-7 of the French Sports Code

The Chairman of the conciliators’ conference rejects conciliation requests relating to disputes that are not among those mentioned in the first paragraph of Article L. 141-4, as well as those that appear to him to be manifestly unfounded. If the previous paragraph is not applied, the Chairman of the Conference appoints a conciliator whose name is notified to the parties. Within one month of the referral, the conciliator, after hearing…

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Article R141-9 of the French Sports Code

Referral to the French National Olympic and Sports Committee interrupts the time limit for appeals, in application of article R. 141-8 of this code, only if it is made within the time limit stipulated in the first paragraph of article R. 141-15. The interruption ends : – if the application is rejected in application of article R. 141-16 of this code, on the date of notification of this rejection ;…

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