French Sports Code

For each sport and for a given period, a single approved federation is delegated by the Minister responsible for sport. The granting of the delegation is subject to the conclusion of a delegation contract between the State, represented by the Minister for Sport, and the federation concerned, the duration of which is set by decree in the Conseil d’Etat. The delegating federation may only entrust a professional league created in…

Delegated federations : 1° Organise sporting competitions leading to the award of international, national, regional or departmental titles; 2° Make the corresponding selections; 3° Propose a federal performance project consisting of a programme of sporting excellence, a programme of access to top level sport including measures to encourage the detection, including outside national territory, of athletes likely to be included on the lists mentioned in 4° and a programme of…

The delegating federations, where applicable in coordination with the professional leagues they have created, shall draw up a charter of ethics and professional conduct in accordance with the principles defined by the charter provided for inarticle L. 141-3. They shall set up an ethics committee from among their members, whose independence they shall guarantee. This committee shall ensure that the charter referred to in the first paragraph of this article…

The delegated federations, where applicable in coordination with the professional leagues that they have created, and within the framework of the guidelines set by the Minister responsible for sport, draw up a national strategy aimed at promoting the principles of the contract of republican commitment mentioned inarticle 10-1 of law no. 2000-321 of 12 April 2000 on the rights of citizens in their relations with administrations and in I of…

The delegated federations lay down : 1° The technical rules specific to their discipline as well as the rules intended to control their application and sanction their non-respect by the participants in sporting competitions; 2° Regulations relating to the organisation of any event open to their members; 3° Regulations relating to the legal, administrative and financial conditions to be met by sports associations and societies in order to be allowed…

Access by a delegated sports federation to personal information relating to gambling transactions, with a view to the implementation of a possible sanction procedure against a player in a sports competition who has bet on one of the competitions in its discipline, is carried out: 1° By request addressed to the Autorité nationale des jeux for operations recorded by a sports betting operator holding the authorisation provided for inArticle 21…

With the exception of sports federations approved on 16 July 1992, only delegated sports federations may use the designation “Fédération française de” or “Fédération nationale de” as well as award or have awarded the designations “Equipe de France” and “Champion de France”, followed by the name of one or more sports disciplines, and include them in their articles of association, contracts, documents or advertising. The chairman, director or manager of…

Organising competitions at the end of which an international, national, regional or departmental championship title or a title likely to be confused with one of these titles is awarded without being the holder of the delegation provided for in article L. 131-14, in breach of the provisions of article L. 131-17, is punishable by a fine of 7,500 euros. However, approved sports federations may issue national or federal champion titles…

Where no sports federation has been delegated responsibility for a particular sport, the powers conferred on the delegating federations by this section and by Articles L. 222-7, L. 222-11, L. 222-15, L. 222-16, L. 222-18, L. 222-19, L. 311-2 and L. 331-4 to L. 331-7 may be exercised, for a specific period and with the authorisation of the Minister responsible for sport, by a specialised commission set up by the…

When the Minister responsible for Sports refers to the administrative court the acts taken by virtue of the delegation mentioned in article L. 131-14 which he considers to be contrary to the law, he may include in his appeal a request for suspension. This request shall be granted if one of the grounds put forward appears, in the light of the investigation, to be such as to create serious doubt…