PLF 2023: the State continues to support public sports policies

Excluding the contribution to the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games, the budget of the Ministry of Sports and the Olympic and Paralympic Games is up 2,6% compared to 2022.

€818m will be allocated to the following non-Olympic measures:

• Facilitate access to sport for young people by renewing the Pass'Sport for 2023 (€100 million), a flat-rate aid of €50 which reduces the cost of registration for a young person in a sports club; the objective is to reach 2 million young people encouraged to register or re-register in a sports club;
• Develop sports practice by deploying more local sports facilities on French territory (renewed aid of up to €100 million); this local sports equipment plan makes it possible to reduce territorial inequalities in terms of equipment, by prioritizing the less well-endowed territories and to promote an easily accessible sporting activity, as close as possible to the populations;
• Strengthening the link between sport and health via the setting up of Sport-Health Centers (€4M): these centers aim to welcome and guide the public regarding the practice of physical and sporting activities for health purposes and the development of adapted physical activities with health professionals. health, social and sport;
• Professionalize sports structures to ensure that these structures allow safe sports practice in order to combat sexual and gender-based violence and radicalization phenomena in sport: the National Sports Agency will benefit from an additional budget of 10 M € to step up its action to support and professionalize these sports structures;
• Promoting French expertise in major international sporting events: the Ministry of Sports and the Olympic and Paralympic Games will benefit from an additional budget of €3 million to help host events in France. This additional envelope could in particular help to contribute to the hosting of major esports events in France.
• Promoting French people's commitment to the Olympic and Paralympic Games via a national popular ticketing program aimed at priority audiences (schoolchildren and young people, volunteers from the sports movement, people with disabilities and their caregivers, State officials involved in the organization of the Games). This program benefits from an overall envelope of €11 million (including €5,5 million from 2023) for the purchase of more than 400.000 tickets.

The contribution to the preparation of the Olympic and Paralympic Games amounts to €295 million.

• €270 million will be allocated to the Olympic structures delivery company (SOLIDEO) in order to continue carrying out development operations and the delivery of structures (athletes' village, Olympic aquatic center, etc.);
• €25 million will be allocated to the Organizing Committee for the Olympic and Paralympic Games (COJOP - Paris 2024) in charge of planning and organizing the games and financing the temporary facilities.

Note that more than 97% of the COJOP budget is provided by private funding.

We will not fail to follow carefully the implementation of these ambitious objectives and the future Olympic law which should be presented to the Council of Ministers by the end of the year.