English: However, the Monitoring Group, conscious of the need to protect the individual rights of all sports persons, maintains that there is an obligation upon the sports movement as a whole to ensure that the procedures and techniques used in doping control respect those rights.  1.2 Accordingly, it affirms that doping controls should always be as non-intrusive as the available technology permits, and that where blood-testing is concerned, this should only be resorted to when the use of urine as a control medium is incapable of procuring the desired effect.  1.3 For this purpose, the Monitoring Group states that, whilst the taking of capillary blood samples in quantities expressed in microlitres is in practical terms less intrusive than taking venous blood samples in quantities expressed in millilitres, the same ethical and legal considerations (and thus the present list of basic principles) apply to both categories of samples.  2. Necessity  The body or bodies wishing to take blood samples for the purpose of anti-doping control or related research must be able to show that there is a clear scientific need for blood samples in addition to urine samples.  3. Free and informed consent  3.1 Sports federations and other competent bodies, which intend to practice blood sampling for doping control, must ensure that:   - the authority to do so is enshrined in their anti-doping rules;  - sportsmen and women liable to be tested (or in the case of minors, their parent or guardian) explicitly acknowledge that authority when accepting the rules of the governing body or other agency;  - information, which is a prerequisite of consent, must be given in clear and accessible language, must mention the existence of blood sampling, the sampling method used, the frequency of samples allowed and, especially, the risks of intravenous tests.  3.2. Sports federations and other competent bodies have an obligation, before instituting controls, fully to inform sportsmen and women (or in the case of minors, their parent or guardian), when they accede to a level of competition at which they become liable to doping controls, concerning the implications of their consent.
French:   3. Consentement libre et éclaire  3.1 Les fédérations sportives et les autres organismes compétents qui envisagent de recourir à l'échantillonnage sanguin à des fins de contrôle antidopage doivent s'assurer que :  le droit de procéder à de tels échantillonnages est inscrit dans leur règlement antidopage ;  les sportifs susceptibles d'être contrôlés (ou, dans le cas de mineurs, leurs parents ou tuteur) reconnaissent explicitement ce droit en même temps que les règles de l'organisation directeur ou de l'organisme compétent ;   - l'information, qui est une condition préalable au consentement, doit être fournie dans un langage clair et accessible, et doit mentionner l'existence d’échantillonnage sanguin, la méthode de prélèvement, la fréquence des prélèvements autorisés, et en particulier les risques de tests intraveineux.  3.2 Avant d'instaurer des contrôles, les fédérations sportives et les autres organismes compétents sont tenus de donner aux sportifs (ou, dans le cas de mineurs, à leurs parents ou tuteur), lorsqu'ils accèdent à un niveau de compétition où ils sont susceptibles de faire l'objet de contrôles antidopage, toutes les informations utiles sur les conséquences de leur consentement.