Section 1: Medical certificate

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…