Spanish Anti-Doping Agency

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.

Spanish Anti-Doping Agency
Agencia Estatal Antidopaje
Agency overview
FormedFebruary 8, 2008 (2008-02-08)[1]
JurisdictionSpain
HeadquartersMadrid,  Spain
Agency executive
  • Director, José Luis Terreros Blanco
Parent agencyMinistry of Culture and Sport
Websitewww.aepsad.gob.es

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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