The federation’s competent governing body shall appoint a doctor, in accordance with the conditions set out in the federation’s medical regulations, to coordinate the examinations provided for under the medical surveillance defined in article R. 231-3.
The results of examinations carried out as part of the medical monitoring defined in article R. 231-3 are sent to the athlete as well as to the doctor mentioned in article R. 231-4. They are recorded in the individual record book provided for in article L. 231-7.
Each year, the doctor referred to in article R. 231-4 will draw up a report on the medical surveillance provided for in this chapter. This report sets out the methods of implementation and a summary of the collective results of this surveillance. It is presented by this doctor at the first federal general meeting following its establishment and sent by the federation to the Minister for Sport.
In application of this chapter, persons required to know individual data relating to the medical surveillance of licence holders registered on the list of top-level sportsmen and women or recognised in the federal performance project are bound by professional secrecy under the conditions and subject to the reservations set out in articles 226-13 and 226-14 of the French Criminal Code.
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…
Doping prevention medical centres are approved by the regional prefect after consultation with the director general of the regional health agency with territorial jurisdiction.
Approval is granted once the conditions defined in article D. 232-5 have been met. It specifies the territorial jurisdiction in which the doping prevention medical units operate. In each territorial jurisdiction, only one branch is granted the approval referred to in article L. 232-1.
To obtain the approval referred to in article L. 232-1, a doping prevention medical unit must meet the following conditions: 1° It must be directed by a doctor with expertise in sports medicine or the treatment of addictions, or who has experience in doping prevention; 2° It must have an organisational and operational plan which identifies the staff, health or sports professionals or psychologists required to carry out the tasks…
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