Anti-doping rules
ANTI-DOPING RULES (based on the World Anti-Doping Code 2021)
DEFINITIONS
used in the national anti-doping rules of the Republic of Belarus
ADAMS
The Anti-Doping Administration and Management System is a system designed to manage an Internet-based database through data entry, storage, distribution and reporting, designed to assist stakeholders and WADA in their anti-doping activities while complying with data protection laws.
Cancellation
See Consequences of Anti-Doping Rule Violations.
Anti-doping activities
Anti-doping education and awareness, test distribution planning, maintaining the Registered Testing Pool, managing Athlete Biological Passports, administering testing, organizing sample analysis, gathering intelligence and conducting investigations, processing TUE requests, managing results, hearings, monitoring and enforcing any sanctions imposed, and all other anti-doping activities required to be conducted by or on behalf of an Anti-Doping Organization in accordance with these Rules, the Code and/or the International Standards.
Anti-Doping Organization
A signatory responsible for adopting rules to initiate, implement and enforce any part of the doping control process. Specifically, anti-doping organizations include the International Olympic Committee, the International Paralympic Committee, other major sporting event organizers who conduct testing at their sporting events, WADA, international sports federations and national anti-doping organizations.
Atypical test result
A report from a WADA-accredited laboratory or other WADA-approved laboratory of a result that, in accordance with the International Standard for Laboratories or relevant technical documents, requires further investigation before being considered an Adverse Analytical Finding.
Atypical result according to the athlete’s biological passport
A finding designated as an atypical finding on the Athlete Biological Passport as described in the relevant International Standards. Appendix No. 1 to the anti-doping rules of the Republic of Belarus.
Athlete’s biological passport
Data collection and compilation program and methods implemented in accordance with the International Standard for Testing and Investigations and the International Standard for Laboratories.
WADA
World Anti-Doping Agency.
Guilt
Any breach of duty or any lack of vigilance appropriate to a particular situation. Factors that must be taken into account in assessing the degree of culpability of the Athlete or other Person include, for example, the Athlete’s or other Person’s experience; whether the athlete or other person is a protected person; special circumstances such as disability; the degree of risk that the athlete should have been aware of; the level of vigilance that the athlete was required to exercise and the investigation that the athlete was required to undertake to establish the extent of the possible risk. In assessing the degree of culpability of an Athlete or other Person, the circumstances taken into account must be specific and relevant to explain the Athlete’s or other Person’s departure from the expected standard of conduct. For example, the fact that the athlete will lose the opportunity to earn large sums of money during the period of ineligibility, or that the athlete has little time left to continue his career, or the schedule of the sports calendar will not be considered a relevant fact that will be taken into account when reducing the period of sports ineligibility. according to subclause 10.6.1 or 10.6.2.
Out-of-competition period
Any period that is not a competitive period.
Temporary suspension
See Consequences of Anti-Doping Rule Violations.
Delegated third party
Any person to whom NADA delegates any aspect of doping control or anti-doping education programs, including, but not limited to, third parties or other anti-doping organizations that conduct sample collection or other doping control services or anti-doping education programs for NADA, or persons , acting as independent contractors who perform doping control services for NADA (for example, non-working doping control officers or chaperones). This definition does not include CAS.
Disqualification
See Consequences of Anti-Doping Rule Violations.
Doping control
All stages and processes from test planning to the final appeal decision, including all stages and processes in between, such as provision of whereabouts information, sample collection and handling, laboratory analysis, TUEs, results management and hearings.
Contaminated product
A product containing a prohibited substance that is not listed on the product label or in information that can be obtained through a proper Internet search.
Prohibited substance
Any substance or class of substances listed on the Prohibited List.
Prohibited method
Any method listed on the prohibited list.
Prohibited list
A list establishing a list of prohibited substances and prohibited methods.
Protected person
An Athlete or other individual who is under eighteen (18) years of age at the time of the anti-doping rule violation and who is not included in any Registered Testing Pool has never competed in any international competition in any age or other category; or for reasons other than age has been determined to lack capacity under applicable national law.
Individual sport
Any sport that is not a team sport.
Usage
Using, applying, eating, injecting, or using in any other way anything related to Prohibited Substances and Prohibited Methods.
CAS
Court of Arbitration for Sport.
Code
World Anti-Doping Code.
UNESCO Convention
International Convention against Doping in Sport, adopted at the 33rd session of the UNESCO General Conference on October 19, 2005, including amendments adopted by the States Parties to the Convention, as well as the Conference of the Parties to the International Convention against Doping in Sport.
Team sport
A sport in which substitutions of team members are permitted during athletic competitions.
Person
An individual, organization or other legal entity.
Marker
A complex substance, a group of substances or biological variables that indicate the use of a Prohibited Substance or Prohibited Method.
International sporting event
A sporting event or sporting competition whose governing body is the International Olympic Committee, the International Paralympic Committee, an international federation, a major sporting event organizer or another international sporting organization, or such organizations, appoint technical personnel to the sporting event.
International standard
A standard approved by WADA in support of the Code. Compliance with an International Standard (as opposed to another alternative standard, practice or procedure) shall be sufficient to establish that the procedures specified in the International Standard were performed in an appropriate manner. International Standards shall include any technical documents issued in accordance with the International Standard.
Metabolite
Any substance formed during the process of biotransformation.
Minimum set level
The estimated concentration of a Prohibited Substance or its metabolite(s) or marker(s) in a Sample, below which WADA-accredited laboratories shall not report the Sample as an Adverse Analytical Finding.
Purpose
Providing, supplying, controlling, facilitating, or otherwise participating in the use or attempted use by another person of a prohibited substance or prohibited method. However, this definition does not apply to the bona fide actions of medical personnel to use a Prohibited Substance or Prohibited Method for a genuine therapeutic purpose supported by appropriate documentation or other acceptable explanation. It also does not apply to activities involving Prohibited Substances that are not Prohibited in Out-of-Competition Testing, unless the circumstances as a whole indicate that the Prohibited Substances were not intended to have a valid documented therapeutic purpose or were intended to enhance athletic performance.
National Anti-Doping Organization
The organization(s) designated by each country as having the authority and responsibility for adopting and implementing anti-doping rules, conducting sample collection, processing test results, and conducting hearings at the national level. Unless this designation has been made by the competent public authority(ies), such entity shall be the National Olympic Committee or an organization authorized by it.
National Sports Federation
A national or regional organization that is a member of an international sports federation or is recognized by it as an organization that governs sports at the national or regional level for the purpose of developing and popularizing the sport(s), organizing and conducting sports competitions in this sport(s).
National sporting event
A sporting event or sporting competition in which athletes of international or national level participate and which is not an International Sporting Event.
National Olympic Committee
An organization recognized by the International Olympic Committee. The term “National Olympic Committee” also refers to national sports confederations in those countries where the functions of the national Olympic committee to combat doping in sports are assumed by national sports confederations.
Adverse Analytical Finding
A report from a WADA-accredited laboratory or other WADA-approved laboratory that the presence of a Prohibited Substance, or its metabolites, or markers (including elevated levels of endogenous substances) was detected in the Sample in accordance with the International Standard for Laboratories and relevant technical documents, or evidence of the use of a prohibited method has been obtained.
Unfavorable result according to the athlete’s biological passport
A finding designated as an Adverse Finding on the Athlete Biological Passport as defined in the relevant International Standard.
Minor fault or negligence
A finding by the Athlete or other Person that his or her fault or negligence, when considered as a whole and taking into account the standard of no fault or negligence, is not significant in relation to an anti-doping rule violation. Except in the case of a Protected Person or a Recreational Athlete, for any violation of Section 2.1, the Athlete must also prove how the Prohibited Substance entered the Athlete’s body.
Underage
An individual who has not reached eighteen years of age.
Possession
Actual, physical possession or demonstrable indirect possession (which occurs when a person has exclusive control or intends to have control over a Prohibited Substance or Prohibited Method, or the premises on which a Prohibited Substance or Prohibited Method is present). If a person does not have exclusive control, indirect possession will only exist if the person knew about the presence of the Prohibited Substance or Prohibited Method and intended to exercise such control. It shall not be an anti-doping rule violation based solely on possession if the Person, while in Possession of a Prohibited Substance or Prohibited Method, and prior to receiving any notice of an anti-doping rule violation, takes specific steps to demonstrate that the Person never intended to Possess the Prohibited Substance or Prohibited Method, clearly declaring denial of ownership to the anti-doping organization. Notwithstanding any conflict in this definition, the purchase of a Prohibited Substance or Prohibited Method (including purchases through electronic or other means) shall be deemed to be possession of a Prohibited Substance or Prohibited Method by the person making such purchase.
Processing the results
The process covering the period of time between notification in accordance with Article 5 of the International Results Management Standard, or in certain cases (e.g., Adverse Finding, Athlete Biological Passport, Whereabouts Failure), such preliminary notification steps are expressly provided for in Article 5 of the International Results Management Standard. processing of the results, through the prosecution until the final resolution of the matter, including the end of the hearing process at first instance or on appeal (if an appeal has been filed).
Sports event objects
Venues designated as such by the governing body of the sporting event.
Education
A learning process designed to instill values and behaviors that promote and protect the spirit of sport and to prevent the intentional and unintentional use of doping.
Organizer of a major sporting event
Continental Associations of National Olympic Committees and other international organizations that bring together several sports and act as governing bodies for continental, regional and other international sporting events.
Special substance
See sub-clause 4.2.2.
No fault or negligence
Establishment by the Athlete or other Person that he or she did not know or suspect, and could not reasonably have known or suspected, even when exercised the utmost care, that he or she was using or had been prescribed a Prohibited Substance or Prohibited Method or he or she otherwise committed an anti-doping rule violation. Except in the case of a Protected Person or a Recreational Athlete, for any violation of Section 2.1 the Athlete must also establish how the Prohibited Substance entered the Athlete’s body.
Aggravating circumstances
Circumstances relating to the Athlete’s or other Person’s participation or conduct that may justify a period of Ineligibility greater than the standard sanction. Such circumstances and actions include, but are not limited to: the Athlete or other Person has used or possessed multiple Prohibited Substances or Prohibited Methods, has used or Possessed a Prohibited Substance or Prohibited Method on multiple occasions, or has committed multiple other anti-doping rule violations; an athlete who improves athletic performance by violating anti-doping rules after the end of the applicable period of ineligibility on another occasion; the Athlete or other Person conducts himself in a manner intended to interfere with the detection or adjudication of an anti-doping rule violation; or an athlete or other person engaging in tampering with the results management or hearing process. For the avoidance of doubt, the examples of circumstances and conduct described herein are not exhaustive and other similar circumstances or conduct may also justify the imposition of a longer period of Ineligibility.
Period of the sporting event
The time between the start and end of a sporting event, as determined by the governing body.
Athlete personnel
Any coach, educator, manager, agent, team support staff, official, medical, paramedical personnel, parent or any other person working with, providing medical care to, or assisting the Athlete in preparing for and participating in athletic competition.
Signatories
Organizations that have signed the Code and have agreed to abide by the principles and rules set forth therein, in accordance with Article 23 of the Code.
Attempt
Intentional participation in actions that are a significant link in activities aimed ultimately at violating anti-doping rules. The condition that an anti-doping rule violation will not be considered solely on the basis of an attempted violation is that you withdraw from the attempt before it becomes known to a third party not involved in the attempt.
Consequences of anti-doping rule violations, “Consequences.” A violation of an anti-doping rule by an Athlete or other Person may result in one or more of the following consequences:
а) Cancellation – cancellation of an athlete’s results in a particular sporting competition or sporting event with all the ensuing Consequences, including the forfeiture of all awards, points and prizes;
б) Disqualification – suspension for a specified period of time from participation in any sporting competition or other activity in connection with an anti-doping rule violation, or refusal to provide funding, as provided in sub-clause 10.13.4;
в) Temporary suspension – Preventing an athlete or other person from participating in an athletic competition or activity until a final determination is made at a Chapter 8 hearing;
г) Financial implications – financial sanctions that are imposed for violating anti-doping rules or to reimburse costs associated with violating anti-doping rules;
д) Public Disclosure or Public Reporting – distributing or making information available to the general public or persons other than those persons entitled to earlier notice under Chapter 14. Teams in team sports may also be subject to consequences as provided in Chapter 11.
Preliminary hearings
An expedited summary hearing, as provided in Article 7.9, held prior to a Chapter 8 hearing, giving the Athlete the opportunity to receive notice and be heard either orally or in writing.
Detection limit
The value of the threshold level of a substance in a sample, above which it will be considered an adverse analytical finding, as defined in the International Standard for Laboratories.
Sample or Sample
Any biological material collected for the purpose of doping control.
Independent Observer Program
An observer group under the auspices of WADA that observes, provides recommendations regarding the doping control process at certain sporting events, and reports on its observations.
Public Disclosure or Public Reporting
See Consequences of Anti-Doping Rule Violations.
Spreading
The sale, transfer, transportation, forwarding, delivery or distribution (or possession for any of these purposes) of a Prohibited Substance or Prohibited Method (either directly or via electronic or other means) by an Athlete, Athlete Support Personnel or any other Person under the jurisdiction of an Anti-Doping Organization , to any third party. However, this definition does not apply to the bona fide actions of medical personnel to use a prohibited substance for a real therapeutic purpose supported by relevant documents or having another acceptable explanation. It also does not apply to activities involving Prohibited Substances that are not Prohibited in Out-of-Competition Testing, unless the circumstances as a whole indicate that the Prohibited Substances were not intended to have a valid documented therapeutic purpose or were intended to enhance athletic performance.
Regional Anti-Doping Organization
A regional organization authorized by participating countries to coordinate and implement areas of national anti-doping programs delegated to it, which may include the adaptation and implementation of anti-doping rules, sample planning and selection, results management, consideration of TUE requests, conducting hearings, conducting educational programs at the regional level
Registered testing pool, testing pool
A list compiled separately by International Federations at the international level and National Anti-Doping Organizations at the national level. This list consists of Elite Athletes who are subject to In-Competition and Out-of-Competition Testing as part of the Sample Distribution Plan of that International Federation or National Anti-Doping Organization, who are therefore required to provide Whereabouts Information in accordance with Article 5.6 and the International Standard for Testing and investigations.
Results Processing Agreement
For purposes of Subclauses 10.7.1.1 and 10.8.2, a written agreement between an Anti-Doping Organization and an Athlete or other Person that permits the Athlete or other Person to provide information to the Anti-Doping Organization for a specified limited period of time, with the understanding that if the agreement is to substantially assist or the resolution agreement has not been finalized, the information provided by the Athlete or other Person in that particular setting may not be used by the Anti-Doping Organization against the Athlete or other Person in any results management process under the Code, and that information provided by the Anti-Doping Organization in this particular setting may not be used by the Athlete or other Person against the Anti-Doping Organization in any results management process under the Code. Such agreement shall not prevent the Anti-Doping Organization, Athlete or other Person from using any information or evidence collected from any source except for the specified limited time described in the agreement.
Competitive period
The period commencing at 23:59 on the day preceding the day of the competition in which the Athlete is entered until the end of the Competition and the sampling process relating to that Competition. However, there is a condition under which WADA may approve an alternative definition of “Competitive” for a particular sport if the International Federation provides compelling justification that a different definition is necessary for its sport; the WADA-approved alternative definition must be applied by all major sporting event organizers for that particular sport.
Competition
A single race, match, game or single sporting event – such as a basketball match or the 100m final at the Olympic Games. For stage races and other sporting events where prizes are awarded daily or at other intervals, the distinction between a sporting competition and a sporting event will be established in accordance with the rules of the relevant International Federation.
Sport’s event
A series of individual sporting competitions held together by a single governing body (such as the Olympic Games, FINA World Championships or Pan American Games).
Athlete
Any Person who participates in sport at the international (as determined by each International Federation) or national level (as determined by each National Anti-Doping Organization). An Anti-Doping Organization has the discretion to apply anti-doping rules to an Athlete who is neither an International-Level nor a National-Level Athlete, extending the definition of “Athlete” to them as well. For Athletes who are neither International- nor National-Level Athletes, the Anti-Doping Organization may take the following actions: minimize testing or conduct no testing at all; analyze samples not for the entire list of prohibited substances; require less or no location information; do not require advance filing of TUE requests. However, if an Athlete under the jurisdiction of an Anti-Doping Organization who is competing at a level below the International and National level commits an anti-doping rule violation under Article 2.1, 2.3 or 2.5, he will be subject to the consequences provided for in the Code (except for Sub-Clause 14.3.2). For the purposes of clauses 2.8 and 2.9 and for the purposes of information and education programs, an athlete is any person participating in sport under the jurisdiction of any signatory, government or other sporting organization that has adopted the Code.
Amateur athlete
An athlete who systematically engages in a chosen sport, is on the list of groups of physical culture and sports organizations (regardless of the form of ownership), secondary schools of the Olympic reserve or individuals engaged in sports training, not included in the list of national and national teams of the Republic of Belarus in sports, but at the same time having the opportunity to participate in international or national competitions, is not included in the national and international testing pools, is not receiving financial compensation on an ongoing basis for a given sporting activity, and has not been a national or international level athlete for five years prior to the possible anti-doping rule violation.
International athlete
Athletes who compete at an international level, as defined by each International Federation, in accordance with the International Standard for Testing and Investigations.
Спортсмен национального уровня
Спортсмены, соревнующиеся на национальном уровне, как определено каждой национальной антидопинговой организацией, в соответствии с Международным стандартом по тестированию и расследованиям. В Республике Беларусь определение спортсмена национального уровня указано в пункте 1.6.
Strict liability
A rule that provides that, subject to Articles 2.1 and 2.2, an Anti-Doping Organization does not need to establish intent, fault, negligence or knowing use by the Athlete in order to establish an anti-doping rule violation.
Substantial assistance. According to subclause 10.7.1, the person providing significant assistance must:
1) provide in writing with his own signature information that he has regarding the anti-doping rule violation;
2) cooperate fully with the investigation and official proceedings of any matter involving the information, including, for example, testifying at a hearing if requested by an Anti-Doping Organization or hearing panel.
The information provided must be credible and relevant to the investigation of the case for which the case has been brought, or, if the case has not yet been brought, must provide sufficient grounds for the institution of such a case.
Substance causing addiction
See subclause 4.2.3 of the Rules.
TUE
Permission for therapeutic use provided for in paragraph 4.4.
Testing
Part of the doping control process that includes the development of a sample distribution plan, sample collection, handling, and delivery of samples to the laboratory.
Technical document
A document adopted and published periodically by WADA containing mandatory technical requirements on specific anti-doping topics set forth in the International Standard.
Participant
Any athlete or athlete support personnel.
Falsification
Intentional conduct that interferes with doping control procedures but that does not fall within the definition of a prohibited method. Tampering includes, but is not limited to, offering or receiving a bribe to perform or fail to perform an act that interferes with the collection of samples, an act that interferes with or prevents the analysis of samples, or falsifying documents submitted to an anti-doping organization or TUE panel, or hearing panel, making false statements by witnesses, committing any other fraudulent act against an Anti-Doping Organization or hearing body in order to influence the processing of results or the application of consequences, including intentionally obstructing or attempting to obstruct any aspect of doping control.
Financial sanctions
See Consequences for Anti-Doping Rule Violations.
Functional independence
This term means that (1) board members, employees, commissioners, consultants and officials of the anti-doping organization with results management responsibility or its affiliates (for example, member federations or confederations), as well as any person participating in the investigation and pre-trial review, may not be appointed as a member and/or secretary (to the extent such secretary participates in the deliberation and/or review of any decision) of that Anti-Doping Organization’s results management hearing panel and (2) the hearing panel must be able to conduct hearings and make decisions without interference from the Anti-Doping Organization or any third party. The purpose of operational independence is to ensure that hearing panel members or persons otherwise involved in the panel’s decisions do not participate in the investigation or determination of a case.
Target testing
Selection of specific athletes for testing based on criteria established by the International Standard for Testing and Investigations.
