French Sports Code

Any combination of three breaches of the whereabouts obligations set out in article L. 232-15 during a continuous period of twelve months is subject to the administrative sanctions set out in articles L. 232-21-1 to L. 232-23-3-12. For the purposes of this article, any breaches of the whereabouts obligations set out in article L. 232-15 identified by the French Anti-Doping Agency, as well as any breaches of whereabouts obligations identified…

It is prohibited: 1° For any person to administer or attempt to administer to athletes one or more substances or methods included on the list of prohibited substances mentioned in article L. 232-9. The following do not constitute a breach of this prohibition a) Actions undertaken in good faith by medical personnel involving a Prohibited Substance or a Prohibited Method used for legitimate and lawful therapeutic purposes or for which…

The international sports bodies responsible for initiating or carrying out anti-doping controls at international sports events, as well as the organisers of national or international sports events and their agents who, in the course of their duties, become aware of any of the offences referred to in articles L. 232-25 and L. 232-26, shall report them to the competent judicial authority.

All athletes, athlete support personnel, sports federations and any body, member or agent of a sports federation shall cooperate with anti-doping organisations that are signatories to the World Anti-Doping Code investigating anti-doping rule violations and shall report to the French Anti-Doping Agency any breach of the provisions of this chapter of which they become aware. In the event of a breach of these obligations and except where the breach constitutes…

It is forbidden for any person to aid or abet, or attempt to aid or abet, a violation of the anti-doping rules.

Where such conduct does not constitute Tampering, an Athlete or other Person shall not: a) intimidate or threaten any person with a view to dissuading that person from communicating in good faith to the World Anti-Doping Agency, an anti-doping organisation, the judicial authority, a person entrusted with public authority, an administrative authority or a professional body with sanctioning powers, a hearing body or a person conducting an investigation on behalf…

Persons authorised by the French Anti-Doping Agency or requested by the persons mentioned in article L. 232-13 are authorised to carry out tests ordered by the Agency and sworn in, as well as persons working on behalf of a body mentioned in the first paragraph of II of article L. 232-5. These persons are bound by professional secrecy under the conditions set out in article 226-13 of the French Penal…

Testing operations are carried out by the Director of the Testing Department of the French Anti-Doping Agency, who may delegate this task to agents under his hierarchical authority. The persons mentioned in article L. 232-11 may take biological samples intended to reveal the use of prohibited methods or to detect the presence of prohibited substances in the body. Only the persons mentioned in article L. 232-11 and who are authorised…

The biological samples mentioned in the first paragraph of article L. 232-12 may be taken for the purpose of establishing the profile of relevant parameters in the urine or blood of an athlete for the purpose of revealing the use of a substance or method prohibited under article L. 232-9. The information gathered in this way may be processed by the French Anti-Doping Agency in accordance with the provisions of…

I.-For the sole purpose of detecting the presence in an athlete’s sample and the use by that athlete of a substance or method prohibited pursuant to Article L. 232-9, the laboratory accredited by the World Anti-Doping Agency in France may, on the basis of blood or urine samples from athletes which are sent to it and in the event that other available techniques do not allow them to be detected,…