The agreement provided for in article L. 122-14 comes into force after its approval by the administrative authority. It is deemed to have been approved if the administrative authority has not made known its opposition within two months of its transmission.
The sports association retains free disposal of the distinctive signs used by the sports company or transferred to it.
The affiliation of an association to a federation gives rise to the issue of an affiliation number by the federation, of which the association is the sole holder. As part of the agreement provided for in article L. 122-14, the sports company formed by the association has the right to use the association’s affiliation number to carry out the activities entrusted to it.
A sports association that forms a sports company is the addressee of the deliberations of the company’s management bodies. It may take the actions provided for in articles L. 225-230 to L. 225-232 of the French Commercial Code.
Where a sports association is subject to the provisions of Book VI of the Commercial Code relating to business difficulties, the sports company formed by it is jointly and severally liable to implement the safeguard plan or court-ordered recovery plan.
A Conseil d’Etat decree specifies the stipulations that must be included in the agreement provided for in article L. 122-14, in particular the conditions of use by the company or transfer to it of the association’s name, trademark or other distinctive signs, as well as the financial conditions granted to the sports association by the sports company under the principle of solidarity between professional and amateur activities.
The purpose of sports federations is to organise the practice of one or more sports. They operate completely independently.
Sports federations are constituted in the form of associations, in accordance with the law of 1st July 1901 relating to the contract of association or, in the departments of Haut-Rhin, Bas-Rhin and Moselle, with the local civil code. School and university federations and unions are subject to the provisions of this code and the livres V and VIII of the Education Code.
Sports federations bring together sports associations. They may bring together as members, under the conditions laid down in their articles of association: 1° Individuals to whom they issue licences directly; 2° Profit-making organisations whose purpose is the practice of one or more of their disciplines and which they authorise to issue licences; 3° Organisations whose purpose is not the practice of one or more of their disciplines but which contribute…
With the exception of school and university sports federations, sports federations are run by one or more bodies elected by the federation’s members.
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