IPC Anti-Doping Code. Article 18 - Education

18.1 The IPC shall implement, evaluate and monitor information and education programmes for doping-free Sport

18.2 All IPC member organizations as Signatories to the WADC and in compliance with the Code, shall also develop information and education programmes for doping-free Sport fore Athletes and Athlete support personnel under the scope of their responsibility

18.3 These programmes shall provide Athletes and other Persons with updated and accurate information on at least the following issues:

• Substances and methods on the Prohibited List
• Anti-Doping Rule Violations
• Consequences of doping, including sanctions, health and social consequences
• Doping Control procedures
• Athletes'     and     Athlete    Support     Personnel's     rights     and responsibilities
• Therapeutic Use Exemptions
• Managing the risks of nutritional supplements
• Harm of doping to the spirit of Sport

The programmes should promote the spirit of Sport in order to establish an environment that is strongly conducive to doping-free Sport and will have a positive and long-term influence on the choices made by Athletes and other Persons.

These programmes should be directed at young people, appropriate to their stage of development, in school and Sports clubs, parents, adult Athletes, Sport officials, coaches, medical personnel and the media (the media should also co-operate in supporting and diffusing this information).

Athlete Support Personnel should educate and counsel Athletes regarding Anti-Doping policies and rules adopted pursuant to the Code.

All Persons subject to this Code shall promote and support active participation by Athletes and Athlete Support Personnel in education programmes for doping-free Sport.

[Comment to Article 18.3: Anti-Doping informational and educational programmes should not be limited to national- or International-Level Athletes but should include al Persons, including youth, who participate in Sport under the authority of any organization subject to this Code. (See definition of Athlete.) These programmes should also include Athlete Support Personnel.

These principles are consistent with the UNESCO Convention with respect to education and training.]