French Sports Code

Access to the slide includes a waiting area and an access staircase. The waiting area is designed to ensure a smooth flow of users and avoid jostling. It is marked out and has handrails separating the queues. A narrowing allows access to the staircase via a single lane. The staircase is designed to accommodate one person at a time. The regulation of the departure of users for the descent is…

Diving boards are run-up and take-off areas for diving. They include: – springboards measuring 1 and 3 metres; – platforms measuring 1, 3, 5, 7, 50 and 10 metres. The overhead and underwater safety gauges, the minimum distances between diving boards and the side edges of the pools and the other technical provisions are specified in Annex III-11 to this code.

When a device is used to artificially generate waves, an orange flag is hoisted before and during wave production, indicating that diving is prohibited. When waves are being generated, an emergency stop button for this equipment is placed in the pool surveillance area. The wave-making chambers are inaccessible to the public. In the wave production area, devices allow bathers to hang on to the edge of the pools. The design…

There is a handrail at the entrance and exit to the whirlpools.

Rivers with buoys or currents are pools, with or without gradients, used with or without buoys and in which an artificial current is organised. Their course includes, at regular intervals, calm zones with support points. When the course forms a closed loop, an area is set aside to allow swimmers to exit the river. The course and its difficulties, precautions for use, compulsory or recommended uses and prohibitions are displayed…

Subject to the provisions of article A. 322-41, operators of establishments existing on 6 July 1999 must comply with the provisions of article A. 322-20, the second paragraph of article A. 322-24, the first paragraph of article A. 322-25, article A. 322-27, the second paragraph of article A. 322-29, the second and third paragraphs of article A. 322-32, articles A. 322-33, A. 322-37 and A. 322-38.

The modification of an establishment existing on 6 July 1999, which is intended to affect all or part of the equipment provided for in articles A. 322-21, A. 322-23, A. 322-26, A. 322-28, A. 322-30, A. 322-31, A. 322-35, A. 322-36, A. 322-39 and the second and third paragraphs of article A. 322-25, must have the effect of bringing the part of the establishment which will be modified into compliance…