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SLSI (Sri Lanka Standrds Institution) declares that its apex body ISO (International Organization for Standardization) is helping the fight against the misuse of drugs in sport by developing the first International Standard for doping control.

The International protocol for doping control, which is a comprehensive approach to managing and improving the quality of anti-drug programmes in sport, will be further developed from its current status as an ISO Publicly Available Specification (PAS) to become a fully fledged ISO International Standard. The first drafts are expected to be completed by the second half of 2002 and the interested parties could obtain copies of these drafts through SLSI.

The fight to eradicate the misuse of drugs continues to be hampered by the lack of a commonly accepted International Standard for doping control, resulting in the frequent overturning by sports tribunals or civil courts of positive drug tests. In addition to the possibility that offenders may thus avoid sanctions, 'clean' (drug-free) sportsmen and sportswomen suffer from the lack of harmonization among antidoping rules.

This International Standard is designed to encourage harmonization of the divergent doping control procedures practised in different countries and by different sports organizations. A common and internationally accepted ISO International Standard will provide a uniform set of guidelines to ensure a fair and equitable international doping control system that will protect the integrity of honest athletes and detect the wrongdoers.

It is expected that the adoption of ISO/PAS 18873 as an International Standard will significantly increase its worldwide acceptance by governments, sports organizations and athletes as the recognized code for doping control. 

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