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If food supplements are not on the World Anti-Doping Agency's list of prohibited products (transposed into the Sports Code), athletes must remain vigilant because of the risk of contamination with prohibited products.

On August 18, 2022, the Minister of Sports adopted an order noting compliance with the Sports Code of the modifications that the National Handball League (NHL) made to its statutes in March 2022, with the agreement of the French Handball Federation. (FFH).

The DNCG Appeals Committee confirmed the decision taken by the Professional Clubs Control Committee which pronounced the administrative demotion of the Girondins de Bordeaux to National 1 (financial difficulties). What are the means of appeal to challenge this decision?

The decree of April 26, 2022 sets the conditions allowing the maximum duration of the first employment contract of a professional football player to be extended from 3 to 5 years.

FIFA is launching its new online legal proceedings management portal for all proceedings before the Football Court and the judicial bodies of FIFA.

In 2020, BERTRAND Sports Law Firm was designated the best French Sports Law Firm in France (category Law firms of less than XNUMX lawyers) by the magazine Le Monde du Droit.

Liberal collaboration offer in sports law and business law Cabinet Bertrand

The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) has rejected the request filed by the Russian Football Federation against the decisions of the UEFA Executive Committee and the FIFA Council suspending the participation of Russian clubs and national teams in their competitions.

FIFA has added an appendix 7 to the Regulations on the Status and Transfer of Players: “Temporary rules in response to the exceptional situation linked to the war in Ukraine”. These temporary provisions relate in particular to the rules for the registration and employment of players and coaches.

The decree relating to the conditions for granting and withdrawing the delegation granted to sports federations as well as the content and terms of the delegation contract was published on February 25, 2022. It modifies the mechanism for granting, refusing and withdrawal of the delegation.

Internship offer in sports law for a period of 6 months from July 4, 2022

The Council of State validates the option for the Sanctions Commission of the AFLD to reduce the duration of a sanction taken against an athlete for the use of unspecified substances when the circumstances of the case justify it with regard to the principle of proportionality .

Player loans will be subject to new regulations on July 1, 2022, which are part of the third group of reforms to the international transfer system – transfers of minors, loan contracts and squad sizes, registration periods, financial regulations .

The list of approved online gaming and betting operators was drawn up by the National Gaming Authority on December 17, 2021 and published in the Official Journal of the French Republic on January 4, 2021.

List of sports disciplines recognized as being of a high level, in order to allow the exercise of their prerogatives until December 31 of the year in which the summer Olympic and Paralympic Games in Paris 2024 take place

An anti-doping control carried out in France (national or international athlete) with a positive result leads to a presumption of infringement of anti-doping rules and the opening of a disciplinary procedure before the French Anti-Doping Agency (AFLD) .

Edition of October 19, 2020, file of the football club Luzenac Ariège Pyrénées. Decision of the Council of State of October 6, 2020 which confirms the cancellation of the minutes of the board of directors of the Professional Football League which had not authorized the club to access Ligue 2.