June 30, 2010 (Ottawa, Ontario) – The Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sport (CCES) is revising the Canadian anti-doping rules, and invites members of the sport community to review and comment on the draft, released today. The 2009 Canadian Anti-Doping Program (CADP) requires rules changes to remain current with the World Anti-Doping Code. Your feedback is vital to the process.

This version change will not require sport organizations to re-adopt the CADP. It will come into effect without any action on your part, in two phases:

– Sections 2-9 of the CADP – October 1, 2010
– Section 1: General Principles – January 1, 2011

Noteworthy changes include:

– Parts of the Canadian Policy Against Doping in Sport that will not be carried forward in 2011 were incorporated into the CADP (Rules 1.0-1.3).
– The Therapeutic Use Exemption (TUE) process was split, to define the athletes that require a TUE in advance of competition and the athletes who may meet anti-doping requirements by being followed by a licensed medical practitioner.
– The World Anti-Doping Agency’s (WADA) Athlete Biological Passport Operating Guidelines (Rule 6.1) were incorporated, including four new annexes for collection, transport, analytical and results management requirements (Annex 6H-J, 7A).
– Whereabouts submission dates were clarified to synchronize with ADAMS submission deadlines of January 1, April 1, July 1 and October 1 (Rule 6.98).

The CCES encourages you to provide feedback by September 7, 2010 by emailing cadp2010@cces.ca.

For complete analysis and a link to all relevant documents, please click here.

The CCES is an independent, national, non-profit organization. Our mission, to foster ethical sport for all Canadians, is carried out through research, promotion, education, detection and deterrence, as well as through programs and partnerships with other organizations.