The new certificate for sport

As during the confinement of last spring, only “individual physical activity”, close to home, is authorized in France. Obviously, you must complete the new exceptional travel certificate, available at www.interieur.gouv.

It’s over again for the football matches on Saturday morning or Monday evening, for tennis matches between noon and two, for your weight training or her zumba class after work or for volleyball games with friends. in the parks or on the beaches on weekends … Prohibited from all collective sporting activities (18 or 2 people), the French will probably resume jogging as during the previous confinement, which extended from March 17 to May 11, 2020.

Faced with a second wave which will be “probably more deadly than the first“According to the President of the Republic Emmanuel Macron, France therefore entered a second confinement on Friday, October 30. Non-essential travel is no longer authorized and non-compliance with this confinement is severely sanctioned. The fine is 135 euros (increased to 375) and increases to 200 euros (increased to 450) in the event of a repeat offense within 15 days. After a third offense, a person is threatened with a fine of 3,750 euros and a 6-month prison sentence.

As in last spring, however, certain trips are authorized and it is essential to complete your exceptional travel certificate, the new version of which is available on the website of the Ministry of the Interior (www.interieur.gouv). Sure the dedicated page, the digital derogatory travel certificate is offered first. You just have to fill out this certificate online to generate a document that can be presented via your smartphone during any police checks. No need to print the certificate in 50 copies!

For individual sporting activities close to his home, the following proposition must therefore be checked: “Short trips, within the limit of one hour per day and within a maximum radius of one kilometer around the home, linked either to the individual physical activity of people, to the exclusion of any collective sporting practice and any proximity to other people, either for a walk with only people grouped together in the same home, or for the needs of pets».

As part of the state of health emergency, to curb the Covid19 epidemic, people living in France can, in addition to stretching their legs for an hour, leave their home to go to work (for people with dispensation), to do essential shopping, to receive treatment, for compelling family reasons, to provide assistance to vulnerable people or to pick up your child from school. Sports facilities will also open to welcome children after school.