The use of legislation in relation to controlling the production, movement, importation, distribution and supply of performance enhancing drugs in sport (PEDS) / Barrie Houlihan and Borja García. - Institute of Sport and Leisure Policy School of Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences Loughborough University: Loughborough, 2012
The revised World Anti-Doping Code which entered into force on 2009 marked an important development in the fight against doping in sport. Among the many changes introduced one of the most significant was the expansion of the scope of anti-doping activity beyond the use of substances by athletes to incorporate a concern to address issues associated with the production, movement, importation, distribution and supply of performance-enhancing drugs. Such a broadening of the remit of anti-doping activity not only involves National Anti-Doping Organisations (NADO's) in a series of relationships with other non-sport anti-drugs organisations, but also involves the introduction of new laws and/or amendments to existing legislation.
UNESCO States Parties to the International Convention against Doping in Sport have adopted a variety of responses to the implementation of the revised Code and particularly to the requirements of Article 8 of the UNESCO Convention which notes that ‘States Parties shall, where appropriate, adopt measures to restrict the availability of prohibited substances and methods in order to restrict their use in sport by athletes, unless the use is based upon a therapeutic use exemption. These include measures against trafficking to athletes and, to this end, measures to control production, movement, importation, distribution and sale.’
