Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- Table of cases
- Introduction
- 1 The development of principles relating to anti-doping regimes: the role of the Court of Arbitration for Sport
- 2 Overview of the Code and the World Anti-Doping Program
- 3 The International Standards in more detail
- 4 The nature of the Code and its interpretation and application
- 5 Articles 1 and 2 of the Code: anti-doping rule violations under the Code
- 6 Article 3 of the Code: the proof of anti-doping rule violations under the Code
- 7 Responsibility for testing and investigations, results management and hearings
- 8 Sanctions for anti-doping rule violations: Articles 9 and 10 of the Code
- 9 Article 13: appeals under the Code
- 10 Challenges to the Code in the courts
- 11 The way ahead: the 2009 Code
- Index
11 - The way ahead: the 2009 Code
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 June 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- Table of cases
- Introduction
- 1 The development of principles relating to anti-doping regimes: the role of the Court of Arbitration for Sport
- 2 Overview of the Code and the World Anti-Doping Program
- 3 The International Standards in more detail
- 4 The nature of the Code and its interpretation and application
- 5 Articles 1 and 2 of the Code: anti-doping rule violations under the Code
- 6 Article 3 of the Code: the proof of anti-doping rule violations under the Code
- 7 Responsibility for testing and investigations, results management and hearings
- 8 Sanctions for anti-doping rule violations: Articles 9 and 10 of the Code
- 9 Article 13: appeals under the Code
- 10 Challenges to the Code in the courts
- 11 The way ahead: the 2009 Code
- Index
Summary
Amending the Code
WADA is responsible for overseeing the evolution and improvement of the Code and for initiating amendments to the Code under Article 23.6. Where WADA puts forward amendments, it must institute a consultation process under which athletes, Signatories and governments provide their comments on the proposed amendments. After the required consultation process has taken place, the proposed amendments must be approved by a two-thirds majority of the WADA Foundation Board, with a majority of the public sector and Olympic movement members' casting votes, in order to be adopted. Amendments come into effect three months after approval, and Signatories to the Code must implement applicable amendments within one year of approval by the WADA Foundation Board.
WADA initiated amendments to the Code in 2005, and a consultation process took place over the next eighteen months, which culminated in the meeting of the WADA Foundation Board in Madrid in November 2007 at the World Conference on Doping. At this meeting, amendments to the Code were approved and the deadline for acceptance of the amended Code by Signatories is 1 January 2009.
Amendments to the sanctions regime in the Code
The area in which the most significant amendments to the Code have been made is the sanctions regime under Article 10.
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- A Guide to the World Anti-Doping CodeA Fight for the Spirit of Sport, pp. 240 - 256Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2008