The crises affecting the football and rugby federations in France prompted Amélie Oudéa-Castéra to make an announcement this Thursday. The Minister of Sports and the Olympics has indeed indicated in the daily The world that “a national committee to strengthen ethics and democratic life in sport” will be set up in the coming days. This announcement comes the day after the resignation of the president of the French Football Federation (FFF) Noël Le Graët. “This national committee will be made up of indisputable qualified personalities, coming from all walks of life, whose experience and complementary views will allow us to have the necessary perspective and the ambition for reform that we need”, she wrote in a forum. .
The committee will make “next fall proposals around three axes: a more ethical, more democratic and more protective sport governance of practitioners”. “This work will feed, after the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games, changes to the legislative, regulatory and statutory framework to make the necessary improvements,” adds the Minister. “The governance crises in French sport all point to the need to support concrete and definitive changes to strengthen the institutions of French sport,” she believes.
Decrees necessary for the application of a law
And yet, a text on sport was voted on in March 2022 and includes measures concerning governance, such as more parity and a three-term limit for presidents of federations. One of the rapporteurs of the law in the National Assembly, LREM MP Céline Calvez, said that a number of decrees necessary for the application of this law had not yet been taken, such as the expanded list of diseases chronic conditions that may give rise to a prescription by prescription.
On the other hand, the decrees authorizing the creation of a commercial company for French football had been taken very quickly after the promulgation of the law. This text, defended by the former Minister of Sports Roxana Maracineanu, allows “significant progress”, according to Amélie Oudéa-Castéra. “I salute in this respect the in-depth work undertaken by the sports federations, with the support of the State, to set up this renovated framework”, she praises in this forum published in The world.