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Anti-Doping
Doping is
contrary to the spirit of Bushido Martial Arts and sport in general. The spirit
of sport is the celebration of the human spirit, body and mind, and is
characterized, amongst other values, by ethics, fair play, honesty, health and
respect for, and compliance with, the spirit and letter of rules and laws. The
Irish Martial Arts Commission (BMA) Anti-Doping Policy seeks to preserve the
spirit of Martial Arts
BMA has
implemented its Anti-Doping Policy. BMA is supported by the Irish Martial Arts
Commission (IMAC) and the Irish Sports Council (ISC) in the implementation and
administration of its Anti-Doping policy.
BMA
competitive events are subject to BMA/IMAC/ISC Anti Doping Policy rules and
competitors may be tested by the Irish Sports Council (ISC) Anti-Doping Unit if
requested to do so. Furthermore BMA's elite athletes are members of the ISC
Registered Testing Pool together with elite athletes from all other government
recognized sports in Ireland.
The World
Anti-Doping Programme
In November 1999, the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) was established as a
Foundation under the initiative of the International Olympic Committee to
promote and coordinate the fight against doping in sport internationally. On the
5th March 2003, at the World Conference on Doping in Sport, WADA adopted the
World Anti-Doping Code. The Code is the first document to harmonize regulations
regarding anti-doping across all sports and all countries of the world.
Its
purposes are:
(i) to protect the Athlete’s fundamental right to participate in doping-free
sport and thus promote health, fairness and equality for Athletes worldwide
(ii) to ensure harmonized, co-coordinated and effective anti-doping programmes
at the international and national level with regard to the
detection, deterrence and prevention of doping.
By adopting
the World Conference on Doping in Sport Resolution at the World Conference, the
International Olympic Committee, the International Paralympic
Committee, International Federations, Major Event Organizations, National
Olympic Committees, and National Anti-Doping Organizations accepted the Code as
the basis for the fight against doping in sport throughout the world and
undertook to implement the Code before the first day of the Games of the XXVIII
Olympiad in 2004 in Athens.
This
unprecedented global harmonization shall facilitate the effective fight against
doping in sport and will ensure that the spirit of sport is safeguarded
for years to come.
The
Copenhagen Declaration
In April 2003, the Minister for Arts, Sports and Tourism signed the Copenhagen
Declaration on Anti-Doping in Sport on behalf of the Irish Government. The
purpose of the Copenhagen Declaration is to articulate a political and
moral understanding among participants at the WADA World Conference on Doping in
Sport to:
(i)
recognize the role of, and support, WADA;
(ii) support the Code;
(iii) sustain international intergovernmental co-operation in advancing
harmonization in anti-doping policies and practices in sport
(iv) support a timely process leading to a convention or other obligation on
points specified in the Copenhagen Declaration, to be implemented through
instruments appropriate to the constitutional and administrative contexts of
each government on or before the Turin Winter Olympic Games.
By signing
the Copenhagen Declaration, the Irish Government agreed to:
(i) recognize the role of the Code as the foundation in the world-wide fight
against doping in sport
(ii) seek to progressively adapt, where appropriate, national anti-doping
policies and practices in sport to be in conformity with the provisions of the
Code
(iii) to encourage national and international organizations engaged in anti
doping in sport to adopt the Code and to be in conformity with the Code, where
appropriate
(iv) to
take appropriate steps to withhold some or all governmental financial support
related to participation in sport from sport organizations, Athletes and Athlete
Support Personnel that are not in compliance with the Code or applicable
anti-doping rules adopted pursuant to the Code
(v) support the role of WADA to co-ordinate, harmonies and standardize
anti-doping efforts according to the Code
The
National Anti-Doping Programme
The Irish Sports Council was established under the Irish Sports Council Act,
1999 to perform the functions conferred on it by or under that Act.
Its functions include the following:
(i) encouraging the promotion, development and co-ordination of competitive
sport and the achievement of excellence in competitive sport
(ii) facilitating, through the promulgation of guidelines and codes of practice,
standards of good conduct and fair play in either or both competitive sport and
recreational sport
(iii) taking such action as it considers appropriate, including testing, to
combat doping in sport.
In performance of these functions, the Irish Sports Council established and
implemented the National Sports Anti-Doping Programme The Irish Sports Council
has accepted the World Anti-Doping Code, (“the Code”) and adopted these
Anti-Doping Rules. These Anti-Doping Rules are adopted and implemented by the
Irish Sports Council in discharge of its statutory functions and duties – in
particular as they relate to the combating of doping in sport – and in
accordance with its obligations under the Code. These Anti- Doping Rules are the
fundamental document upon which the National Sports Anti-Doping Programme is
based. For further information in relation to Anti-Doping, please contact
National
Anti-Doping Officer
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