Effects of the EU Anti-Doping Laws and Politics for the International and Domestic Sports Law in Member States / Magdalena Kedzior. – (International Sports Law Journal (2007) 1-2 : p. 111-114)
Content:
- Introduction
- Legal sanctioning of doping at the international level – historical background
- Legal grounds of the Community anti-doping policy
- Doping in the jurisprudence of the European Court of Justice
- Relations between the EU and WADA
- Doping in Polish legislation
- Conclusions
Because of the commercialisation and professionalisation of sport, the significance of fighting illegal doping has grown in importance and has now become a wide-ranging anti-doping policy within European Union law, while the relations between the anti-doping regulations of international sports federations and the Community laws have become the subject of the jurisdiction of the European Court of Justice. The European Union is an active supporter of the various WADA’s activities, including the organisational and the financial. The adoption of the World Anti-Doping Convention may be seen as a certain achievement, or an accomplishment, justifying the reasons why the EU decided to cooperate with WADA, since it clearly shows that the Convention meets the expectations advocated by the EU, that first of all, the health and rights of sportsmen should be protected.
