Australian Anti-Doping Rules: Australian Anti-Doping Roles

The roles of key organisations in Australia's anti-doping framework is outlined below:

ASADA

  • Delivers national doping control (testing) and education programs
  • Develop, approve and monitor the anti-doping programs and policies of National Sporting Organisations (NSOs)
  • Coordinates the national response to doping
  • Advocates for effective and consistent international anti-doping programs
  • Investigates allegations of doping
  • Prosecutes anti-doping rule violations.

Australian Sports Commission (ASC)

  • Ensures the NSO compliance with anti-doping requirements.

NSOs and other sports organisations

  • Provide ASADA with information and support to implement testing and education programs
  • Implement anti-doping policies including sanctioning athletes.

National Measurement Institute

  • Provides analysis of samples
  • Provides research into new detection methods.

Athletes

  • Comply with and understand the anti-doping rules of their sport
  • Provide up to date and accurate whereabouts information to ASADA
  • Comply with ASADA's doping control program.

 

This page last updated Tuesday, January 22, 2008

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