Rules & Regulations
Rules & Regulations
WADA Code and International Standards ›
The six International Standards that complement the WADA Code and need to be followed by all the signatories are the following:
- Prohibited List
- Testing and Investigation
- Laboratories
- Therapeutic Use Exemptions (TUEs)
- Protection of Privacy and Personal Information
- Code Compliance by Signatories
Anti-Doping Rule Violation (ADRV) ›
An Anti-Doping Rule Violation (ADRV) is when an Athlete or Athlete Support Person commits a doping offence and subsequently there are consequences or sanctions to that person.
WADA defines the following ten Anti-Doping Rule Violations:
- Presence of a prohibited substance or its metabolites or markers in an athlete’s sample
- Use or attempted use by an athlete of a prohibited substance or a prohibited method
- Evading, refusing or failing to submit to sample collection
- Whereabouts failures (any combination of three missed tests and/or filing failures within a 12-month period by an athlete)
- Tampering or attempted tampering with any part of doping control
- Possession of a prohibited substance or a prohibited method
- Trafficking or attempted trafficking in any prohibited substance or prohibited method
- Administration or attempted administration to any athlete in-competition of any prohibited substance or prohibited method or administration or attempted administration to any athlete out-of-competition of any prohibited substance or any prohibited method that is prohibited out-of-competition.
- Complicity (assisting, encouraging, aiding, abetting, conspiring, covering up or any other type of intentional complicity involving an Anti-Doping Rule Violation)
- Prohibited Association