Spanish Anti-Doping Agency

Spanish Anti-Doping Agency
Agencia Estatal Antidopaje
Agency overview
Formed February 8, 2008 (2008-02-08)[1]
Jurisdiction Spain
Headquarters Madrid,  Spain
Agency executive
  • Director, José Luis Terreros Blanco
Parent agency Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport
Website www.aepsad.gob.es

The Spanish Anti-Doping Agency, officially Spanish Agency for Health Protection in Sport (AEPSAD), is a Spanish agency responsible for the protection of the right to health of all the athletes and the protection of the right to participate in a competition without cheats.

How the Agency acts

The main objective of the Agency is to ensure that the sport is carried out in a healthy and untrammeled way, for this purpose:[2]

  • It has a system of health protection in sport and in sports activity.
  • It dissuades traps and doping through education, doping control and the agency impulses projects that help in the understanding of this social scourge and its eradication.
  • It detects anti-doping policy violations through doping control programs and drug research programs.
  • It enforces the anti-doping rules sanctioning any infraction of the same, applying the current legislation.

Structure

  • Director of the Agency.
    • Secretary of direction.
    • Director of the anti-doping control laboratory.
    • Department of Education and Scientific Research.
    • Department of anti-doping control.
    • Department of sport and health.[3]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Real Decreto 185/2008, de 8 de febrero, por el que se aprueba el Estatuto de la Agencia Estatal Antidopaje.
  2. ↑ Presentation of the Agency]
  3. ↑ Structure of the Agency
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