Article 1 :
The National Center of Sports Medicine and
Sciences (CNMSS) is a state Institution of an administrative nature,
character constitution with civil status and financial autonomy and
under the jurisdiction of the Youth, Sports and Physical Education Ministry.
Article2 :
The purpose of the CNMSS is:
To
undertake medical studies and research with a view to guiding and
motivating the young to participate in physical education and sports.
To develop the study
of all practical and theoretical questions pertaining to applied medicine,
physical education and sports with physiological methods in order
to improve the competence and performance in sports.
To define the anthropometrics
and functional norms of the young with a view to exploiting them for
the needs of physical education and sports.
To carry out preventive
and curative periodic medical consultations for the athletes.
To observe the evolution
of the athletes in competition with reference to the results of the
examinations carried out by the CNMSS.
To encourage collaboration
and co-operation between Tunisian and foreign doctors in different
specialties to better develop the sector.
To carry out examinations
of evaluations and counter-evaluations relating to physical education
and sports.
To scientifically
and technically control all the units of sports medicine in different
districts of the country and in different higher education institutes
of sports and physical education under the Ministry of Youth, Childhood
and Sports.
To ensure continuous
training of medical and paramedical staff.
Article3 :
Because of the medical provision given by the
center to the national sporting elite, the CNMSS receives a legal indemnity
from insurance companies, which are under contract with the General
Sports Commission, in accordance with the contracts established to this
effect. The service rendered to other athletes, to elite athletes and
foreign sports teams, has a counter value fixed by joint decree of the
Ministries of Finance, Public Health and Youth, Childhood and Sports.
