Held on March 17 2017 during its Federal Assembly, the FFF adopted its new disciplinary regulations applicable for 2017 / 2018 season. It also adopted the amendment of the medical certificate validity period.

On Wednesday February 15, 2017, the Senate definitively adopted the bill aimed at preserving the ethics of sport, strengthening the regulation and transparency of professional sport and improving the competitiveness of clubs.

According to FIFA's press release, the Court of Arbitration for Sport would have validated under European Union law the sanction imposed by the Disciplinary Commission on FC Seraing for violations of the regulations related to the ownership of the economic rights of players by players. third party TPO

The Administrative Court of Montreuil suspended, by an order of February 24, 2017, the execution of the decision of the French Boxing Federation imposing on an amateur boxer the disciplinary penalty of suspension of federal license for five years.

According to the judgment of the Lyon Labor Council, a deduction from wages decided by a professional football club against one of these players is a financial penalty prohibited by the Labor Code. Cabinet Bertrand is the player's counsel in this matter.

The Council of State had to know of its first case in which the athlete requested the annulment of the sanction imposed by the French Agency for the Fight against Doping (AFLD) because of the substantial assistance provided. The athlete's argument did not succeed (CE 23 December 2016 n ° 399728)

Several important decisions have been taken by Fifa and UEFA. Gibraltar should join Fifa, Kosovo is a new member of UEFA. In Africa, the Beninese Federation is suspended by Fifa; and Equatorial Guinea, she is excluded from the 2020 Women's Olympic Football Tournament

La Fiba announced on November 15, 2016 that it had suspended the Brazilian Basketball Federation (CBB), following a meeting of its Executive Committee

The new Model Disciplinary Rules were eagerly awaited. Adopted on August 1, 2016, Decree No. 2016-1054 modifies numerous provisions of this Regulation.

The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) published on September 29, 2016 the list of substances and methods prohibited in competition and out of competition for 2017. The List will enter into force on January 1, 2017.

The compulsory conciliation procedure CNOSF (French National Olympic and Sporting Committee). The attempt at CNOSF conciliation is a mandatory prerequisite before any litigation in sports matters.

The IOC announced on October 8 2016 when 5ème Olympic Summit, want to reform the fight against doping worldwide. Several recommendations were made.

A bill aimed at preserving the ethics of sport, strengthening the regulation and transparency of professional sport and improving the competitiveness of clubs has just been tabled in the Senate on September 12, 2016 (report of April 19, 2016 by the Great Professional Sport Conference)

The IOC has announced that it has sanctioned 4 Russian athletes and disqualified them from the Beijing 2008 and London 2012 Olympic Games following positive anti-doping controls

German justice refused to apply a judgment of the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) on the grounds that it was contrary to European Union law. In a new judgment of the Federal Court of June 7, 2016, the courts revisited this position and validated the procedure before the CAS.

Fifa indicated, on March 29, 2016, that its Disciplinary Commission imposed a sanction on four clubs (Santos, Sevilla, Sint-Truiden and Twente) for "infringement of the rules of influence by third parties and / or property economic rights of players by third parties ".

In the event of a positive doping control test for a player in a team sport, what are the consequences for the player, but also for the team? Example of the Russian national volleyball team ...

Intervention by Maître Jean-Jacques Bertrand on Itélé on 21.12.2015 about the suspension of Michel Platini by Fifa.

Press release on behalf of Mr. Leonardo de Araujo to make public the agreement to end the dispute between him and the French Football Federation (following his disciplinary suspension by the FFF, suspension canceled by the Administrative Court of Paris and the Council of State)

Maître Christophe BERTRAND, lawyer in sports law, discusses the indictment of Karim Benzema in the case of the alleged blackmail of Mathieu Valbuena.