The World Anti-Doping Agency held its Executive and Foundation Board meetings in Glasgow on 20th and 21st November 2016, including participation of FIS President Gian Franco Kasper, who is a member of the WADA Executive Committee.
The Foundation Board approved a series of recommendations that will equip the Agency to be fit for the future, ranging from compliance and governance to investigations and whistleblowing.
Most notably, the Foundation Board, which is composed equally of the Olympic movement and governments of the world, endorsed a graded sanctioning framework for non-compliance that was put forward by the independent Compliance Review Committee.
Meanwhile, the Board agreed to continue the process to evaluate establishing an Independent Testing Authority (ITA); a request made by the Olympic Summit. This group will report back on the proposal of the ITA at the next Foundation Board meeting in May 2017.
The Board also re-elected President, Sir Craig Reedie, for a further three-year term as the nomination of the sport movement. Reedie is joined by the Agency’s new Vice President, Linda Hofstand Helleland, Norwegian Minister for Sport, as the governments’ choice, following the passing of former Vice President, Makhenkesi Stofile in August 2016.
Read the full release here.
Source: fis-ski.com
