Section 1: Prohibition on entering or being in the vicinity of a venue where a sporting event is taking place

The public prosecutor or the public prosecutor attached to the court that has handed down a final or provisionally enforceable decision imposing the additional penalty of a ban on entering or being in the vicinity of a venue where a sporting event is taking place, as provided for in article L. 332-11, shall send the following information to the prefect of the department in which the convicted person is domiciled…

The prefect to whom the information has been forwarded will forward it, excluding the place of residence, to the approved sports federations, sports associations and sports companies concerned by the additional penalty imposed. The federations will forward this information without delay to the professional leagues concerned. The Prefect may communicate this information to supporters’ associations.

When the decision to impose the additional penalty provided for in article L. 332-11, which is not final but has been provisionally enforced, is overturned by the Court of Appeal, when the person convicted at first instance is acquitted or when the final sentence is amnestied, the recipients of the information referred to in articles R. 332-1 and R. 332-2 are informed without delay in accordance with the same procedure.

For the purposes of the third paragraph of article L. 332-16, the obligation to respond to a summons is exercised with a police or gendarmerie authority in a department within whose territorial jurisdiction the home of the person concerned is located.

When the person subject to the measure provided for in the third paragraph of article L. 332-16 is domiciled in a department other than that of the prefect and, in Paris, the police prefect who imposed the ban provided for in the first paragraph of the same article, the prefectoral order refers the matter to the prefect of the department where the person is domiciled or, in Paris, to the…

If the person concerned is unable to attend a meeting at the location specified in the prefectoral order, he or she must inform the designated authority in detail, without delay and by any means, and the authority may then, if necessary, fix another meeting location, in the same department or in a different department. Any change of venue requires the prior agreement of the prefect(s) concerned.

For the application of article L. 332-16, the prefect of the département or, in Paris, the police prefect or, in the département of Bouches-du-Rhône, the Bouches-du-Rhône police prefect provides the approved sports federations, sports associations and sports companies concerned by the administrative measure imposed with the following information: 1° The surname, first name, date and place of birth of the person subject to an administrative measure banning them from entering…

The federations shall forward this information without delay to the professional leagues concerned.

When the administrative measure banning entry to or access to sports venues is suspended or annulled by the administrative court, the recipients of the information referred to in articles R. 332-7 and R. 332-8 are informed without delay in accordance with the same procedure.