The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) is the international independent organisation created in 1999 to promote, coordinate and monitor the fight against doping in sport in all its forms.
WADA is composed and funded equally by the sports movement and governments of the world. Its key activities include scientific research, education, development of anti-doping capacities and monitoring of the World Anti-Doping Code (the Code) - the document harmonising regulations regarding anti-doping in all sports and all countries.
Athletes are required to follow the anti-doping rules of their sport which adopt the Code. The Code is supported by five international standards that ensure a uniformed approach to anti-doping around the world.
- The Prohibited List - reviewed annually, the list identifies substances and methods that are prohibited in and out-of-competition
- International Standard for Testing - ensures that policies and procedures for testing athletes are consistent and maintain the integrity of samples, collected as part of Doping Control, from notification through to transporting for analysis
- International Standard for Laboratories - ensures that samples are treated in a way that protects their integrity through robust quality assurance standards and uniformed reporting of results from all WADA accredited laboratories
- International Standard for Therapeutic Use Exemption (TUE) - ensures a harmonised approach in the granting of a TUE for a prohibited substance and/or method
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International Standard for the Protection of Privacy and Personal Information - ensures information held on athletes by anti-doping organisations is stored securely and maintains confidentiality
Fundamental to the Code is the principal of strict liability – an athlete is solely responsible for any prohibited substance found in their system regardless of how or why it got there.
As the country’s National Anti-Doping Organisation UK Anti-Doping is responsible for upholding and implementing the requirements of the Code.
2009 Prohibited List [PDF, 173k]
2010 Prohibited List [PDF, 91k]
International Standard for Testing [PDF, 526k]
International Standard for Laboratories [PDF, 497k]
International Standard for TUE 2009 [PDF, 134k]
International Standard for TUE 2010 [PDF, 154k]
International Standard for the Protection of Privacy & Personal Information[PDF, 297k]
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