The purpose of the Act, which is based on the 2021 Code and Standards, is to ensure that athlete rights within anti-doping are clearly set out, accessible, and universally applicable.Įlection of WADA President and Vice-President The Board acknowledged a two-and-a-half-year effort by the Committee, which involved consultation with thousands of athletes and stakeholders around the world. The Board congratulated Beckie Scott, the Chair of WADA’s Athlete Committee, and WADA Athlete Committee member Ben Sandford, the document’s lead drafter, along with the other members of the Committee on the approval of the Athletes’ Anti-Doping Rights Act by the ExCo the day prior.
During this time, stakeholders had multiple opportunities to contribute and make recommendations on how to further strengthen the global anti-doping program. In December 2017, WADA initiated a transparent revision process which consisted of three distinct consultation phases for the Code two for the related International Standards and one for the Athletes’ Anti-Doping Rights Act, previously known as the Anti-Doping Charter of Athlete Rights.
All these documents will come into force on 1 January 2021.įollowing these approvals, a ‘ Katowice Declaration’ called upon “ all stakeholders in the fight against doping in sport, including the Sports Movement, Governments, Anti-Doping Organizations and athletes to reinforce their efforts to strengthen their cooperation in every possible way to present a unified front to strive to eradicate doping in sport to increase resources dedicated to protecting clean sport and to bring all perpetrators to account, without limitation.” The World Anti-Doping Agency’s (WADA’s) fifth World Conference on Doping in Sport concluded today in Katowice, Poland with WADA’s Foundation Board approving the World Anti-Doping Code (Code) and the Executive Committee (ExCo) approving the International Standards.
Agency’s Board approves World Anti-Doping Code and International Standardsīoard elects former elite athletes as President and Vice-President