The Russian Anti-Doping Agency (RUSADA) has received from the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) a plan to restore the status of compliance with the World Anti-Doping Code. RUSADA lost its status in December 2020 after the decision of the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS). The plan must be implemented by December 16, 2022.
“The goal of the plan is to closely monitor RUSADA over a two-year period in order to confirm with maximum confidence that RUSADA has met the conditions for restoration in accordance with the CAS decision and the international standard for compliance with the WADA Code of the signatories,” he said. about. Director General of RUSADA Mikhail Bukhanov TASS.
The plan provides for two levels of RUSADA monitoring – normal operational monitoring, as well as monitoring the actions and activities and status of RUSADA’s governing bodies. “Monitoring will be subject to all functional areas of RUSADA’s activities in accordance with the WADA Code in order to fix the strict and unimpeded implementation of international anti-doping standards,” said Mikhail Bukhanov.
According to him, the focus of the plan is the operational independence of RUSADA, which is to prohibit interference, including testing. If the situation with operational independence or the implementation of other points of the recovery plan becomes critical, WADA reserves the right to apply the expedited procedure for convening and reviewing the problem situation by the Compliance Committee.
Recall that in December, CAS confirmed the legality of the application of a package of super-tough sanctions to Russia by WADA. They were appointed in connection with numerous “inconsistencies” found in the database of the Moscow Anti-Doping Laboratory for 2012–2015. The transfer of information contained in it was a key requirement for the restoration of RUSADA’s rights, which remained under sanctions since 2015, that is, since the beginning of the Russian doping scandal.
Read more in the publication of “Kommersant” “RUSADA wanted legal certainty.”
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