Below you can find summary notes on the revised Standard.

At the bottom of this page are links to the WADA International Standard for Testing in full along with WADA's Q&As on the revised edition. 

Notes On The Revised International Standards For Testing Effective 1 January 2009

Whereabouts

This is a mandatory International Standard developed as part of the World Anti-Doping Programme.

It is recognised and accepted that (a) No Advance Notice Out-of-Competition Testing is at the core of effective Doping Control; and (b) without accurate information as to an Athlete’s whereabouts, such testing can be inefficient and often impossible.

Athletes in ISAF’s Registered Testing Pool (RTP) shall be subject to and required to comply with the Athlete whereabouts requirement set out in the International Standards for Testing.

Whereabouts

An athlete in ISAF’s Registered Testing Pool shall continue to be subject to the whereabouts requirement unless and until:

1. He / she is no longer included in ISAF’s RTP; or
2. He / she retires from competition in the sport and has given written notice to ISAF

Whereabouts Filing Requirements

• ISAF’s RTP is set for 6 months
• Whereabouts filing should be every quarter  due 1 January, 1 April, 1 July and 1 October; this should be filed prior to the first day of each quarter
• Athletes are notified via their MNA that they are on ISAF’s RTP
• Athletes should file his / her whereabouts only with the responsible Anti-Doping Organization (ADO) – ISAF or the National Anti-Doping Organisation (NADO)
• If the responsible ADO is not ISAF we will inform you of this through your MNA at the same time of notification that you are on our RTP
• The responsible ADO will share the whereabouts filing with either ISAF, NADOs and any other ADO’s with jurisdiction to test the athlete
• ISAF only uses ADAMS for collection of whereabouts

ADAMS – Mandatory Whereabouts Requirement

• A complete mailing address where correspondence may be sent to the athlete for formal notice purposes.  Athletes should specify an address where he / she lives or otherwise knows that mail received there will be immediately brought to his / her attention.  (It is important to know that any notice or other items mailed to that address will be deemed to have been received by the athlete five working days after it was deposited in the mail.)
• Athletes will be required to give specific consent to sharing his / her whereabouts filing with other ADO’s having authority to test him / her.
• For each day during the following quarter, the full address of the place where the athlete will be residing (eg home, temporary lodgings, hotel etc)
• For each day during the following quarter, the name and address of each location where the athlete will train, work or conduct any other regular activity (eg work) as well as the usual time frames for such regular activities.  Your whereabouts filing should set out your usual routine:

 eg Mondays: 9-11 gym; 13-17gym; Tuesdays: 9-11 gym, 16-18 gym; Wednesdays: 9- 11 training, 3-5 physio; Thursdays: 9-12 gym, 16-18 training; Fridays: 9-11 training, 15- 17 gym; Saturdays: 9-12 training, 13-15 gym; Sundays: 9-11 gym; 13-15 training

• If the athlete is not currently training, he / she should specify that in their whereabouts filing and detail any other routine that he / she will be following in the forthcoming quarter eg work routine, college schedule with the name and address of each location where that routine is conducted and the time-frame during which it is conducted.
• The athlete must include their competition schedule for the following quarter, including the name and address of each location where the athlete is scheduled to compete during the quarter and the date(s) on which he / she is scheduled to compete at such location(s)
• The whereabouts filing must also include, for each day during the following quarter, one 60-minute time slot between 6am and 11pm where the athlete will be available and accessible for testing at a specific location.  This could be the athlete’s place of residence, training or competition or another location eg work.

Filing Failures and Missed Tests

• A failure to be available for testing at the specified location during the specified 60-minute time slot will be pursued as an apparent Missed Test.
• If the athlete fails to complete their whereabouts filing the ADO shall pursue the matter as a Filing Failure.
• If the athlete makes their whereabouts filing but does not include all of the required information (eg place where he / she will be residing for each day in the following quarter, or omits to declare a regular activity that he / she will be pursuing during the quarter the ADO shall pursue the matter as a Filing Failure.
• If the whereabouts information is insufficient (eg sailing in Hyeres) or inaccurate (eg an address does not exist) and the ADO is unable to locate the athlete for testing and this is not in the 60-minute time slot the ADO shall pursue the matter as a Filing Failure.
• Any combination of three missed tests and / or filing failures within an eighteen-month period shall constitute an anti-doping rule violation.

General

• It is the athlete’s responsibility to ensure that he / she provides all the information required accurately and in sufficient detail to enable any ADO wishing to do so to locate the athlete for testing on any given day in the quarter.

• To achieve testing that is effective in deterring and detecting cheating, best practice requires test distribution planning that makes the timing of testing unpredictable.  To achieve this testing needs to be attempted at different times of the day.

• Where an athlete does not know precisely what his / her whereabouts will be at all times during the forthcoming quarter, he / she must provide his / her best information, based on where he / she expects to be and then update that information as necessary.

• When specifying a location in his / her whereabouts filing the athlete must provide sufficient information to enable the Doping Control Officer (DCO) to find the location, to gain access to the location and the find the athlete at the location.

o Declarations such as “sailing in Hyeres” are insufficient and are likely to result in a whereabouts failure.
o Specifying a location that the DCO cannot access (eg a restricted building) is likely to result in an unsuccessful attempt to test the athlete and is therefore a whereabouts failure.

• An athlete may choose to delegate the making of some or all of his / her whereabouts filings to a third party such as a coach or manager.  However each athlete remains ultimately responsible at all times for making accurate and complete whereabouts filings.  It shall not be a defence to an allegation of a filing failure that a third party failed to comply with the applicable requirements.

• The intent behind the 60-minute time slot is not to limit testing to that period or to create a default period for testing, but rather:

o To make it very clear when an unsuccessful attempt to test an athlete will count as a missed test.
o To guarantee that the athlete can be found and a sample can be collected, at least once a day.

• An update of the 60-minute time slot may be made at any time up until the beginning of the time slot.

• If an athlete is not available for testing at the beginning of the 60-minute time slot, but becomes available for testing later on in the 60-minute time slot, the DCO will collect the sample and include full details of the delay in the availability of the athlete.

• Once the DCO has arrived at the location specified for the 60-minute time slot and the athlete cannot be located immediately then the DCO should remain at that location for whatever time is left of the 60-minute time slot and should make reasonable attempts to find the athlete.