The municipalities and public establishments for inter-municipal cooperation mentioned inarticle L. 5211-28 of the General Local Authorities Code may draw up a local sports plan in order to formalise and order the guidelines and actions aimed at promoting and developing the practice of physical and sporting activities within their territory. The aim of the plan is to organise a diversified lifelong sporting pathway for all members of the public, through cooperation and the pooling of human and material resources in local sporting life. The plan includes consideration of the development of women’s sport, adapted sport and sport for the disabled. It encourages environmental initiatives and social and professional integration through sport.
The municipalities and public establishments for inter-municipal cooperation involve in particular in the preparation of the local sports plan mentioned in the first paragraph of this article:
1° Representatives of the sporting movement;
2° Representatives of associations working to develop physical and sporting activities;
3° Representatives of State departments responsible for youth, sports and social cohesion policies;
4° Natural and legal persons with an interest in the development of sport, in particular professional organisations representing the economic world;
5° Representatives of primary and secondary school sports associations and the educational community;
6° Representatives of the disabled;
7° Representatives of higher education establishments;
8° Representatives of medico-social establishments and services;
9° Representatives of public health establishments.
The local sports plan referred to in the first paragraph may give rise to the conclusion of multi-year contracts with one or more of the natural or legal persons consulted for its preparation. The contracts determine the actions and resources that their signatories may commit to in order to achieve the objectives set by the local sports plan.
When drawing up local sports plans, they take into account the territorial sports project defined by the regional sports conference, mentioned inarticle L. 112-14.
A decree determines the conditions of application of this article.