Subsection 1: Role of doping prevention medical units

A doping prevention medical unit is any structure set up by a health establishment to provide specialised consultations and doping prevention activities for athletes. This structure is part of a sports medicine department. In the absence of such a department, it may be set up within another department of a health establishment. In addition, and in particular in order to optimise its territorial location, this structure may call on :…

The doping prevention medical units must, under the coordination of the Minister responsible for Sport: 1° Set up a system of specialised consultations open to athletes who use doping substances or methods or who are likely to use them; 2° Offer, where appropriate, medical or medico-psychological follow-up to the athletes mentioned in 1°; 3° Set up doping prevention actions aimed at athletes in accordance with the guidelines given by the…

Athletes who have been sanctioned in application of articles L. 232-21-1 to L. 232-23-3-12 benefit from at least one medical consultation within a doping prevention medical unit. At the end of this consultation, a personal certificate conforming to the standard model reproduced in appendix II-1-1 is given to the athlete concerned by the centre’s doctor and a copy is sent without delay, by any means, to the federation to which…