National Anti-Doping Code

Development of the NADC

With the adoption of the WADC on December 10, 2003 in Leipzig, NADA, together with the then National Olympic Committee for Germany (since 2006 the German Olympic Sports Confederation), committed themselves to implementing the WADC. The first version of the NADC was approved by the then honorary board of NADA at the end of October 2004 and implemented by the German sports federations by the end of 2005. NADA revised the NADC for the first time at the end of 2005. In doing so, NADA considered the relevant specifications of WADA. In addition, many practical experiences and comments from the national sports federations have been included. The NADC 2006 came into force on April 1^st, 2006 for athletes and national sports federations. Another revision of the NADC took place in 2008. With the revision of the WADC 2009, the NADC 2009 came into force on January 1^st, 2009. The NADC 2009 was editorially revised in Germany on July 1, 2010. Version 2.0 of the NADC 2009 was valid until December 31^st, 2014. In order to meet current requirements, the NADC was again fundamentally revised for 2015.

On August 21^st, 2020, the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) officially recognized the English version of NADA's National Anti-Doping Code 2021 (NADC21). NADA thus correctly implements the specifications of the revised World Anti-Doping Code 2021 (WADC2021) in the national regulations and is therefore declared "compliant" by WADA. The WADC2021 and NADC21 came into effect on January 1^st, 2021 and replaced the previous regulations from 2015.

You can find the NADC and the National Standards in German in the Downloads section.