Spanish Anti-Doping Agency
| Agencia Estatal Antidopaje | |
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| Agency overview | |
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| Formed | February 8, 2008[1] |
| Jurisdiction | Spain |
| Headquarters | Madrid,  Spain |
| Agency executive |
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| Parent agency | Ministry of 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
- World Anti-Doping Agency
- Spanish National Health System
- Ministry of Health
- Spanish National Research Council
- State Research Agency