COOPERATION

AMADA actively participates on the international scene to promote clean sport. As a national anti-doping organisation, AMADA is always on the lookout for better ways to improve the delivery of its services on domestic level and contribute to the combating doping worldwide. AMADA trusts that mutually beneficial collaboration contributes both on domestic level and on global scale.

AMADA’s International Cooperation

WADA

The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) is an international independent agency composed and funded equally by the sport movement and governments of the world. Its key activities include scientific research, education, development of anti-doping capacities, and monitoring of the World Anti-Doping Code – the document harmonizing anti-doping policies in all sports and all countries. AMADA closely collaborates with WADA on its daily activities and participates on WADA’s events and special working groups, which helps AMADA keep the country in compliance with the Code and International Standards, as well as to contribute to the fight against doping in sport globally.

UNESCO

Azerbaijan became a party to the International Convention against Doping in Sport of UNESCO on 23 July 2007. Convention represents that governments around the world have agreed to apply the force of international law to anti-doping. Convention recognizes and helps to ensure the effectiveness of the World Anti-Doping Code (the Code), as well as provides the legal framework under which governments can address specific areas of the doping problem globally.

In accordance with the compliance monitoring of UNESCO, Azerbaijan has set a National Compliance Platform which consists of AMADA, Ministry of Youth and Sport, Ministry of Internal Affairs, State Border Service, State Customs Committee, Food Security Agency, National Olympic Committee, and, accordingly, AMADA being a National Focal Point for domestic coordination of country’s compliance.

Council of Europe

Anti-Doping Convention of Council of Europe entered into force on 01 March 1990. The Convention lays down binding rules with a view to harmonising antidoping regulations. Azerbaijan ratified the Convention and its Additional Protocol thereto on 04 November 2003 and 11 February 2004, respectively. Consequently, they came into force in 2004.

AMADA closely collaborates with the Monitoring Group of Council of Europe (TDO) and Ad Hoc European Committee of the Council of Europe for the World Anti- Doping Agency (CAHAMA) by participating in the meetings and works, as well as its various working groups.

International Testing Agency

On 12 July 2019 AMADA and ITA signed a collaboration agreement. AMADA’s partnership with the ITA covers sharing of information and expertise in areas of testing, intelligence, athlete biological passports, and cooperation on other mutually interesting issues. The agreement also envisages AMADA acting as Sample Collection Authority on the ITA behalf, as per request.

Signing of this agreement is a next milestone of development strategy as expansion of international cooperation network to benefit from expertise and ensuring the synergy between national and international anti-doping efforts to bring about better results.

NADOs and Sample Collection Authorities (SCA)

AMADA closely collaborates with other national anti-doping organisations and private sample collection authorities to effectively plan its testing and better exchange of information. In 2019, AMADA signed collaboration agreements with the NADOs of Russian Federation, Uzbekistan, Bulgaria and Moldova, as well as renewed its agreement with the international sample collection organisation PWC based in Germany.