The member of athlete support personnel or any other person who assists a person in violating the prohibition provided for in articles L. 232-23 and L. 232-23-4 and persons who have committed a breach of article L. 232-10-3 or article L. 232-10-4 shall be subject to the suspension measures mentioned in 2° of I of article L. 232-23 for a period of between two years and permanent suspension, depending on…
I.- Where the person concerned establishes in a particular case that he is not at fault or negligent, the period of suspension provided for in articles L. 232-23-3-3 to L. 232-23-3-9 shall not apply. II.-The duration of the suspension provided for in articles L. 232-23-3-3 to L. 232-23-3-9 may be reduced under the following conditions, which are mutually exclusive: 1° When the violation involves a specified substance or method other…
The suspension provided for in 2° of I of article L. 232-23 shall take effect on the date of the decision of the Sanction Commission or of the agreement provided for in article L. 232-21, except where b of IV of article L. 232-23-3-10 is applied. Where the person concerned is currently serving a suspension for an anti-doping violation, any new period of suspension shall take effect on the first…
Any person who receives a period of Ineligibility of more than four years may, after serving four years of such period of Ineligibility, participate as an athlete in local sporting events organised by organisations, or their members, which are not signatories to the World Anti-Doping Code, provided that such events are not directly or indirectly qualifying events for a national championship or international event, and provided that the person does…
Where an analysis result implicates a Prohibited Substance or a Prohibited Method, with the exception of a Specified Substance or Specified Method within the meaning of the Prohibited List referred to in article L. 232-9, or where the profile of relevant parameters in an athlete’s urine or blood shows the use of a prohibited substance or prohibited method, the president of the French Anti-Doping Agency shall immediately order the athlete,…
I. – In order to re-establish sporting fairness, when a violation of the rules relating to the fight against doping is found in connection with an in-competition test in individual sports, the competent federation or the organiser shall cancel the individual results obtained during the competition by the athlete who committed the violation, with all the resulting consequences, including the withdrawal of medals, points, prizes and winnings. II. – The…
The decisions of the Sanction Committee of the French Anti-Doping Agency finding an anti-doping rule violation and the agreements concluded in accordance with article L. 232-22 shall be made public after being notified to the persons who have been the subject of them. To this end, the Sanction Commission, or the College in the case of an agreement concluded in accordance with Article L. 232-22, shall order the publication, on…
Interested parties, such as the person concerned, the president of the French Anti-Doping Agency, the competent international federation, the World Anti-Doping Agency and, where applicable, the national anti-doping organisation of the country where the person concerned resides, of which he or she is a national or in which he or she holds a sports licence, the International Olympic Committee or the International Paralympic Committee, where the decision may have an…
Disciplinary proceedings shall lapse ten years after the date of the breach of the provisions of this chapter. This period shall be interrupted by any act of investigation or prosecution. During this period, the Agency may have analyses carried out on samples taken in its custody.
The acts taken in application of 16° of I of article L. 232-5 may be appealed against by the parties referred to in article L. 232-24 before the Court of Arbitration for Sport alone as part of the appeal procedure provided for by the World Anti-Doping Code.
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