Law 2018-202 of the 26 March 2018 on the organization of the Olympic and Paralympic Games of 2024 was promulgated the 26 March 2018 and was published in the Official Journal 0072 27 March 2018.
The Olympic Law of March 26, 2018
After having been examined by the Joint Joint Committee and adopted by the National Assembly on December 20, 2017 then by the Senate the 15 March 2018, the Law was promulgated, by the President of the Republic, the 26 March 2018.
The text is structured in 4 major axes:
Host city contract
Title I transposes the obligations provided for in the host city contract concluded between the City of Paris, the French National Olympic and Sports Committee (CNOSF) and the IOC. It has, among other things, the joint ownership by the CNOSF and the French Paralympic and Sports Committee of the Olympic emblems, among which the terms of the Olympic vocabulary such as ""city + year","Paralympic Games","paralympic","paralympiad","paralympism","paralympian"And"paralympian"" (3 article).
Urban development
Title II provides for provisions relating to development, town planning, the environment, housing and transport. Articles 9 to 23 impose in particular specific deadlines for the delivery, installation and rehabilitation of all the equipment and infrastructures necessary for the organization of the Olympic Games as well as water purification obligations for boats and floating establishments stationed in Paris (11 article).
The security of the Olympics
Title III relating to security allows, for the period necessary for the smooth running of the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games, the creation of "lanes reserved for the circulation of vehicles of the emergency and security services and those of persons accredited within the framework of these games"and the transfer"the competent administrative authority of the State of the traffic police and parking on these reserved lanes and on the ways that allow to ensure the unloading and those that contribute to the running of these games" (24 article).
Ethics and integrity
Title IV concerns ethics and integrity and provides in particular for the obligations of the government in the fight against doping in order to "reinforce the effectiveness, in accordance with the principle of impartiality, of the procedure by which the French Anti-Doping Agency may impose sanctions, in particular by setting up within its own body a separate Commission of the College of agency to pronounce such sanctions" and of "complete the transposition into domestic law of the principles of the World Anti-Doping Code"(Article 25) Title IV imposes, finally, a control of remuneration and ethics and broadens the control powers of the French anti-corruption agency on the legal persons participating"the preparation, organization, conduct and management of the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games or who are in charge of the reconfiguration of the Olympic and Paralympic venues after the organization of these Games"(Article 30).
Press release from the Ministry of Sports
About un communicated, Laura FLESSEL, Minister of Sports, welcomed the final adoption of the Olympic and Paralympic bill by Parliament. She recalls that "un report from the General Inspectorates of Finance, Youth and Sports and the General Council for the Environment and Sustainable Development, responsible for assessing the main risks of delays and costs relating to major operations related to the Games will be submitted public in early April. It is in line with the stated objective of optimally anticipating the preparation of sober and sustainable Games. On the basis of this report, consultations will be carried out with elected officials and local actors in the coming weeks in order to prepare the first scheduled working time with the IOC Coordination Commission, on June 18 and 19.".
