Preliminary chapter

The Minister responsible for sport, in liaison with the other ministers and bodies concerned, initiates and coordinates preventive, medical surveillance, research and educational actions implemented with the assistance, in particular, of the National Sports Agency, sports federations approved under the conditions defined in article L. 131-8 and professional leagues, to ensure the protection of athletes’ health and combat doping. The French Anti-Doping Agency coordinates the actions undertaken as part of…

I. – For the purposes of this Title, an international sporting event is a sporting event which takes place at a venue designated by an international sporting body and for which that body: 1° lays down the rules applicable to the event; or 2° appoints the persons responsible for enforcing the rules applicable to the event. The following are international sports bodies within the meaning of this article: 1° The…

I.- For the purposes of this Title, an athlete is any person who participates in or prepares for: 1° Either in a sporting event organised by an approved federation or authorised by a delegated federation ; 2° A sporting event where prizes are awarded in money or in kind, even if it is not organised by an approved federation or authorised by a delegated federation; 3° An international sporting event…

For the purposes of Section 4 of Chapter II of this Title, it shall constitute substantial assistance for a person to: 1° Fully disclosing, in a signed written statement or in a recorded interview, all information in his possession relating to anti-doping rule violations or other offences or situations if such information enables either: a) The French Anti-Doping Agency to discover or prosecute one or more anti-doping rule violations committed…

For the purposes of Section 4 of Chapter II of this Title, an attempt to commit an offence under the provisions of this Title shall be deemed to have been made if, after it has begun to be committed, it was only suspended or failed to take effect as a result of circumstances beyond the control of the perpetrator. In particular, the offence of attempt is not constituted if the…

For the purposes of sections 3 and 4 of chapter II of this title, doping is defined in article 1 of the World Anti-Doping Code, complicity in article 2 of that Code and doping control, athlete support personnel, agreement without prejudice, protected person, possession, administration, trafficking, adulteration, fault, no fault or negligence, no significant fault or negligence are defined in Annex 1 of the said Code, in the version in…