Annual Report 2014

ANNUAL REPORT 2014 1 CONTENTS page Welcome note of NADA´s Executive Board . 1 NADA´s Supervisory Board . 2 Welcome note of the Chairman of NADA‘s Supervisory Board . 3 Testing Program . 4 Legal Matters . 10 Intelligence & Investigations . 18 Medicine . 20 Prevention . 24 Communication . 26 International Cooperation . 28 Human Resources, Finances and Controlling . 30 Report of the Data Protection Officer . 32 NADA’s Commissions and TUE-Comitee, Organizational Chart . 34 Contact Details . 36 Information Material and Details about Publisher . 37 FOR CLEAN PERFORMANCE In Germany, NADA had already implemented and stand- ardized the stipulations laid down in the new Code of conduct for the field of analytics in its out-of-competition test routines over the past few years . The new 2015 Code now demands that out-of-competition and in-competition tests be handled by the national anti-doping organizations . It also contains new, clearly defined stipulations on how to bind- ingly conduct additional analyses for all tests, both out-of- competition and in-competition ones . The large number of goal-driven measures that have now been concentrated in NADA’s sphere of responsibility will entail additional costs for the foundation, so that the budget will have to be in- Dr . Andrea Gotzmann, Chairperson of NADA’s Executive Board, and creased as from 2015 . In this context, the inclusion of as- Dr . Lars Mortsiefer, Member of NADA’s Executive Board sured long-term funding for NADA in the 2013 coalition agreement constitutes a step of major importance . or clean performance – this has been and will remain FNADA’s vision, strikingly manifested in its initiative In 2014, too, qualitative work was driven forward on the called “GIVE EVERYTHING, TAKE NOTHING” inaugurated two cornerstones of anti-doping work, the testing program in 2014 . Clean performance – that is the goal of all meas- and prevention . Intelligence & Investigations work, which is ures launched in 2014, which have since the beginning of also a constituent part of the new code, has been expanded . 2015 when the revised WADA Code came into force been NADA had already been preparing the ground for this ever translated into tangible reality . The new code of conduct since 2011, by setting up a task force with cross-depart- stipulates a high level of qualitative excellence for anti- mental skills . In close liaison with the federal government, doping work all around the globe, and constitutes a major states, municipal councils, plus numerous institutions of step forward towards equality of opportunity . For NADA, organized sport, NADA’s national prevention campaign one of the most important issues is to ensure that all ath- “TOGETHER AGAINST DOPING” has been put on a broadly letes worldwide are tested to the same level of stringency, based foundation . Dr . Andrea Gotzmann was also a member and can take part in adequate preventive activities . of the Steiner Commission, which has analyzed the insights gained from the study entitled “Doping in Germany” and has This is why NADA, in addition to its national remit, attaches issued recommendations for the ongoing anti-doping work . major importance to international cooperation . Among the NADA’s partners also contributed towards progressing an- guests welcomed by NADA in 2014 was the World Anti-Doping ti-doping work in 2014 . Firstly, the two WADA-accredited Agency (WADA) that sent a delegation to Berlin to conduct a laboratories in Cologne and Kreischa, which in the field meeting with NADA’s Executive Board and Supervisory Board . of analytics are globally acknowledged as second to none, On this occasion, WADA President Sir Craig Reedie promised and the test officers of the various service providers . to prioritize the implementation of effective, efficient and independent test programs at all the world’s organizations In 2014, the draft bill for a law on combating doping in as one of WADA work’s major focuses . It was for the same sports was presented . NADA welcomes the introduction of reason that NADA was represented at the Olympic Games an anti-doping law, which will be able to provide invalu- in Sochi . Above and beyond that, there are very close coop- able support in its anti-doping work aimed at protecting erative ties between NADA and other national anti-doping the clean athletes in Germany . organizations, e .g . in the D-A-CH group, an acronym for the anti-doping teams of Germany, Austria and Switzerland, and in particular USADA, whose CEO Travis Tygart visited NADA in Dr . Andrea Gotzmann Dr . Lars Mortsiefer Bonn in 2014, and there among other things attended NADA’s Chairperson of NADA´s Member of NADA´s Journalists’ Workshop . Executive Board Executive Board 1 SUPERVISORY BOARD In line with the foundation’s bylaws, NADA’s Supervisory Board is com- posed of representatives from the political and sports communities, and from society as a whole . It comprises at least nine persons, is usually con- vened three times a year, and monitors the activities of NADA’s Executive Board . Chairman of NADA’s Supervisory Board 5 . the chairperson of the Sports Committee of the German Prof. Hans Georg Näder (Managing Partner of the Otto Bock Parliament, or a member of the Sports Committee ap- group of companies) pointed by the committee . This is represented by Dag- mar Freitag (member of the German Parliament (MP), The members of the NADA’s Supervisory Board: Chairperson of the Sports Committee on the German 1 . the President of the German Olympic Sports Confedera- Parliament), tion, or a person appointed by him, who shall be a member of the German Olympic Sports Confederation’s Exe- 6 . the Chairperson of the Sport Minister´s Conference, or cutive Board . This is represented by Dr. Michael Vesper a person appointed by him . This is represented by Bernd (Chairman of the Executive Board of the German Olym- Neuendorf (Secretary of State in the Ministry for Fami- pic Sports Confederation), lies, Children, Youth, Culture and Sports of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia) . Up until 31 December 2014, the 2 . the chairperson of the standing conference of the top- previous Chairman of the Sport Minister´s Conference, level-sport federations, or a person appointed by him Peter Beuth (the Hessian Minister of the Interior and for from the standing conference of the top-level-sport fe- Sport), was a member of NADA’s Supervisory Board, derations . This was until 31 December 2014 represented by Rainer Brechtken (President of the German Gym- 7 . three further Supervisory Board members, who must be nastics Federation), and has as from 1 January 2015 appointed by the ex officio Supervisory Board members been represented by Siegfried Kaidel (President of the (Nos . 1 – 6 above) and who must not belong to any of the German Rowing Association), institutions listed under Nos . 1 – 6 above, but shall in particular come from the fields of business and acade- 3 . a person appointed by the Athletes´Comission of the mia; note that here representatives from companies fi- German Olympic Sports Confederation . This is repre- nancially supporting the foundation are to be given presented by Silke Kassner (Athletes’ Commission of the ference . These include Prof. Hans Georg Näder as the German Olympic Sports Confederation), Chairman of the Supervisory Board (Managing Partner of the Otto Bock group of companies), Dr. Michael Ilg- 4 . the German Federal Minister of the Interior, or a person ner (Board Chairman of the German Sports Aid Found- appointed by him from the ministry . This is represen- ation), and Prof. Dr. Christian J. Strasburger (Head of ted by Gerhard Böhm (Head of the Sport Division of the the Clinic for Endocrinology, Diabetes and Nutritional German Federal Ministry of the Interior), Medicine at the Charité Berlin) . Status: May 2015 2 SECURING THE FOUNDATION’S FUTURE their commitment to clean sport . Gratifyingly enough, the states also signed up to this trend, and have decided to make more funding available to NADA as from 2015, mo- ney that will primarily be channeled into indispensable prevention work . Nonetheless, giving the business community, too, an even better understanding of how important clean sport is as an asset to society worthy of support remains a para- mount goal . Not least in view of this aspect did we inau- gurate the “GIVE EVERYTHING, TAKE NOTHING” initiative last year . This serves firstly to provide our partners from Prof . Hans Georg Näder, Chairman of NADA’s Supervisory Board the business community with a platform on which they (Photo: “Otto Bock”) can proclaim their unambiguous support for clean sport, and secondly to help our cause to take even deeper roots n 2014, the Olympic Games and the Paralympics in Sochi in society as a whole than has so far been the case . Be- Iconstituted a major highlight for many athletes . All of them cause only when everybody joins in will there be a chance had been training over long, long years to attain this one of success for our work in advocating clean sport . Since goal, to be allowed to compete at the Paralympics or Olym- its launch, the initiative has already found many followers pic Games . And then it is all the worse when they are chea- – athletes are promoting clean sport, clubs and fans are ted out of their chance to win a medal by doped competitors . supporting us in a most gratifying way . For me personally, as a member of the Paralympic Family, NADA makes an indispensable contribution towards pre- being the Chairman of NADA’s Supervisory Board means serving sport’s fascination and towards defending and to assume responsibility for the values that sport embo- strengthening the values it embodies . Ever since NADA dies, like fairness, tolerance and equality of opportunity, was founded in 2002, its staff have been wholeheartedly and to make sure that the future of NADA as an indepen- committed to assuring clean sport, putting in every effort dent institution for clean sport is secure .

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