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Representing Australia Internationally

International Governmental Consultation
International Anti-Doping Arrangement (IADA)

International Governmental Consultation

ASDA and DCITA supported the International Intergovernmental Consultative Group on Anti-Doping. This group enables governments to work together to promote anti-doping initiatives.

Malaysia held the Consultative Group’s third meeting in April 2002. The meeting attracted 43 countries and was chaired by the Minister for the Arts and Sport, Senator the Hon Rod Kemp, and his Canadian counterpart.

The meeting’s delegates endorsed:

continued development of the World Anti-Doping Code and commitment to provide comments on drafts to WADA; and
development of an international agreement to support anti-doping.

ASDA staff were part of the Australian delegation and helped prepare a range of documents outlining options for the international agreement.

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International Anti-Doping Arrangement (IADA)

Australia is a signatory to the IADA along with Canada, Denmark, Finland, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden and the United Kingdom.

This arrangement cooperatively pursued and promoted anti-doping development.

WADA recognised IADA’s ability to further international harmonisation and continued to help fund:

development of the International Standard for Doping Control (ISO Publicly Available Standard 18873);
International Project Team programs; and
development of accreditation guidelines for certification agencies.

ASDA played a lead role in the development of all these international anti-doping initiatives.

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