Section 2: Training centres

For the application of article L. 211-4, a training centre is any structure set up by an association or the sports company it has set up which enables young sportsmen and sportswomen over the age of fourteen during the year of their enrolment in the training centre to benefit, on the one hand, from sports training leading to professional practice of their discipline and, on the other hand, from school…

The approval referred to in Article L. 211-4 is granted when the criteria defined in the specifications are met. The specifications are drawn up by the relevant delegating federation and sent to the Minister for Sport for approval. It is amended in the same way.

The specifications mentioned in article D. 211-84 define the following criteria: 1° The level of competitions in which the professional team of the association or sports company it has formed must participate. These competitions are organised by the professional league referred to in article L. 132-1 or, failing that, by the delegated federation; 2° The minimum and maximum age of young athletes; 3° The minimum and maximum number of young…

The application for approval is submitted to the relevant sports federation by the sports association or company to which the training centre is attached. The federation submits applications for approval submitted in application of article L. 211-4 to the rector of the academic region in which the sports association or company has its registered office, with his opinion.

Approval is granted for a period of four years by the rector of the academic region. The approval decree is published in the prefecture’s official gazette (recueil des actes administratifs).

Approval is withdrawn if the training centre ceases to meet at least one of the criteria set out in the specifications, or for any serious reason. Approval may, however, be maintained for a period which may not exceed the remaining term of the approval and which may not be more than two years, if the professional team of the association or company to which the centre belongs no longer participates…

A new licence is granted under the same terms and conditions as those set out in articles D. 211-86 and R. 211-87. However, the rector of the academic region may, by way of exception, issue a new licence to a sports association or society which already holds a licence and which meets the criteria set out in the specifications, with the exception of 1° of article D. 211-85. This approval…

The Minister for Sport monitors the operation of approved training centres. The relevant delegated federation contributes to the proper implementation of this control by sending the Minister responsible for sport all useful documents and may also carry out any checks and assessments it deems appropriate.