The full BJJA GB Rules and regulations are being revised to comply with the World Anti-Doping Association (WADA) and UK Sport model rules form implementation in 2009.

When you become a member of the BJJAGB you agree to abide by these anti-doping rules. Key Anti-Doping Issues Therapeutic Use Exemptions (TUEs) Whenever you take any medication, it is your responsibility to check that it doesn’t contain any banned substances on the Prohibited List.

If you are competing in national or international competitions you should explain to your Doctor that you could possibly be drug tested, and therefore you need to check all medications against the Prohibited List, using the Drug Information Database on the UK Sport website: www.uksport.gov.uk

You may have no choice but to take medication that does contain a banned substance. If this happens, and you are competing at a high level it is imperative that you apply for a TUE straight away (in case you are drug tested at any stage).

There are two different types of TUE forms available, so to obtain the correct TUE application form you will need to contact(the BJAGB's Doping Control Officer) and explain what substance you need to take, who will then send you an application form which you must complete and get signed by the Doctor that issued you the medication. You should then send the completed form into the BJJAGB Head Office. We will check that the form is completed correctly and send it off to UK Sport for approval. Once UK Sport approve your application they will send you notification (usually within 15 days of receipt).

It is very important that you keep a copy of your application and the notification from UK Sport in a safe place, and take it with you to squad training and any competitions where you may be drug tested as proof that you have a TUE.

UK Sport have an online system that you have / or will be given individual access to, and it is very important that you log on and update you whereabouts information regularly. Failure to do so constitutes an anti doping rule violation, and means that you are at risk of receiving a sanction / penalty. Internatonal JJIF Doping Rules please visit www.jjifweb.com

If at any stage you have any problems using the whereabouts system please call the UK Sport Drug Free Sport helpline on 0800 032 2332 immediately.

Further Information For further information on any anti-doping issues please visit the:
UK Sport web site: www.uksport.gov.uk
World Anti-Doping Association: www.wada-ama.org
UK Anti-doping in sport: www.ukad.org.uk/100percentme

Each country and each international sports federation is required to sign up to and implement the Code. National governing bodies of sport then need to ensure they are compliant with the relevant international sports federation and their national anti-doping organisation.

A revised Code was signed off at the World Conference on Doping in Sport in November 2007, and will be implemented on 1 January 2009.

Under-pinning the Code is a set of four International Standards that outline mandatory systems and processes for; testing, the therapeutic use of prohibited substances or methods, the Prohibited List and WADA accredited laboratory processes.

UK Sport has also published the 2009 UK Anti-Doping Rules and the 2009 UK Anti-Doping Procedures Guide for Sport.



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