The World Conference on Doping in Sport, held in Johannesburg from 12 to 15 November 2013, launched the updated World Anti-Doping Code and international standards for testing and research, laboratories, treatment authorisations and personal data protection. All these changes were endorsed by the founding Board of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) during the Conference. The new, stricter Code will enter into force in 2015.<\/p>\n
The process of updating the Code started at the end of 2011. Governments, sports organisations, national anti-doping organisations and other organisations submitted around 4,000 comments and suggestions during the 3 phases of the review.<\/p>\n
From 2015, National Anti-Doping Organisations will be required to incorporate the new Code into their national anti-doping rules, while governments will have until that time to adopt or update the necessary legislation, policies and administrative practices for the exchange of information between authorities.<\/p>\n
Fundamental changes to the Code<\/span><\/p>\n The new Code strengthens sanctions for anti-doping rule violations. The sanction for a first-time anti-doping rule violation is increased to between 2 and 4 years' Ineligibility (currently between a severe warning and 2 years' Ineligibility), unless the athlete can prove there was no intentional use.<\/p>\n The Code defines circumvention of doping controls as an anti-doping rule violation. Meanwhile, the time limit for missing 3 tests or providing false location information is reduced from 18 months to 12 months, which means that the statute of limitations for a violation runs out sooner, but the sanction for these violations is increased to 2 years (previously 1 year).<\/p>\n National Anti-Doping Organisations and International Federations are under an obligation to automatically open an investigation, within their jurisdiction, against the Athlete Support Personnel in the event of a positive sample from a minor athlete. There is also a new provision for coaches and support staff who are disqualified - the Athlete's cooperation with such staff, with knowledge of the disqualification, will be considered an anti-doping rule violation, and the Athlete himself may face sanctions.<\/p>\n In addition to testing, the new version of the Code also emphasises the importance of investigations, by requiring National Anti-Doping Organisations and International Federations to investigate anti-doping rule violations by gathering evidence and information.<\/p>\n New WADA leadership<\/span><\/p>\n During the Conference, WADA's founding Board elected a new WADA President, Sir Craig Reedie, who will succeed John Fahey from 1 January 2014. M.A. Stofile from South Africa to succeed Arne Ljungqvist.<\/p>\n In his farewell speech, Mr Fahey, who led the organisation for 6 years, said: \"There are words, there are intentions, and now we need to translate them into an action plan that we will take forward with renewed vigour and purpose.\"<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The World Conference on Doping in Sport, held in Johannesburg from 12 to 15 November 2013, launched the updated World Anti-Doping Code and international standards for testing and analysis, laboratories, authorisations [...]<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-naujienos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/antidopingas.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/antidopingas.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/antidopingas.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antidopingas.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antidopingas.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/antidopingas.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1351\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/antidopingas.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antidopingas.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antidopingas.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}