Specific measures defined by order of the ministers responsible for sport and labour set out the medical surveillance procedures for salaried professional sportsmen and women.
The provisions of articles L. 231-2 to L. 231-2-3 apply to any licence issued by a sports federation entitling the holder to practice one or more of the sports it organises. The one-year period mentioned in article L. 231-2-3 is assessed on the day the athlete applies for the licence or registers for the competition. The medical certificate referred to in articles L. 231-2 and L. 231-2-1 used to establish…
The renewal of a licence is understood to mean the issue of a new licence, without a break in time with the previous one, within the same federation.
The collegiate body with competence in medicine provided for in II of Article L. 231-2 and III of Article L. 231-2-1 corresponds to the medical committee provided for in point 2.4.2 of Annex I-5.
For minors, with a view to obtaining or renewing a licence or registering for a sporting competition as referred to in article L. 231-2-1, the athlete and the persons exercising parental authority must jointly complete a questionnaire relating to their state of health, the content of which is specified by joint order of the Minister for Health and the Minister for Sport. The persons exercising parental authority over the minor…
The sports that present particular constraints within the meaning of Article L. 231-2-3 are listed below: 1° Sports practised in a specific environment: -underwater diving, including underground diving ; 2° Sporting disciplines, practised in competition, for which disqualification from combat is authorised, in particular or exclusively when, following a blow, one of the opponents is in a state that renders him/her incapable of defending him/herself and may even result in…
Every year, sports federations publish an official calendar of competitions to ensure that sportspeople have enough recovery time to protect their health.
The medical surveillance to which the sports federations mentioned in article L. 231-6 subject their licence holders registered on the list of top level sportsmen and women or recognised in the federal performance project is intended to prevent the health risks inherent in intensive sports practice.
The federation’s competent governing body shall appoint a doctor, in accordance with the conditions set out in the federation’s medical regulations, to coordinate the examinations provided for under the medical surveillance defined in article R. 231-3.
The results of examinations carried out as part of the medical monitoring defined in article R. 231-3 are sent to the athlete as well as to the doctor mentioned in article R. 231-4. They are recorded in the individual record book provided for in article L. 231-7.
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