Doping is contrary to the spirit of AKAI, Kickboxing and sport in general. The spirit of Kickboxing is the
celebration of the human spirit, body and mind, and is characterised, amongst other values, by ethics,
fair play, honesty, health and respect for, and compliance with, the spirit and letter of rules and laws.
The Allstyles kickboxing Association of Ireland (AKAI) Kickboxing Policy seeks to preserve the spirit of
AKAI and Kickboxing in general.

As the government recognised body responsible for the governance of Kickboxing in Ireland, AKAI has
implemented its Kickboxing Policy. AKAI is supported by the Irish Sports Council (ISC) in the implementation
and administration of its Kickboxing policy.

AKAI competitive events are subject to ISC Anti Doping Policy rules and competitors may be tested by the Irish
Sports Council (ISC) Kickboxing Unit if requested to do so. Furthermore AKAI's elite athletes are members of the
ISC Registered Testing Pool together with elite athletes from all other government recognised sports in Ireland
.

The World Anti Doping Programme

In November 1999, the World Anti Doping Agency (WADA) was established as a Foundation under the initiativeof
the International Olympic Committee to promote and coordinate the fight against doping in sport internationally
. On the 5th March 2003, at the World Conference on Doping in Sport, WADA adopted the World Kickboxing
Code. The Code is the first document to harmonise regulations regarding Kickboxing across all sports and al
l countries of the world.

Its purposes are:

(i) to protect the Athlete's fundamental right to participate in doping-free sport and thus promote health, fairness
and equality for Athletes worldwide
(ii) to ensure harmonised, co-ordinated and effective Kickboxing programmes at the international and national
level with regard to the
detection, deterrence and prevention of doping.

By adopting the World Conference on Doping in Sport Resolution at the World Conference, the International
Olympic Committee, the International Paralympics Committee, International Federations, Major Event
Organisations, National Olympic Committees, and National Kickboxing Organisations accepted the Code as the
basis for the fight against doping in sport throughout the world and undertook to implement the Code before the
first day of the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad in 2004 in Athens.

This unprecedented global harmonisation shall facilitate the effective fight against doping in sport and will ensure
that the spirit of sport is safeguarded for years to come.

The Copenhagen Declaration

In April 2003, the Minister for Arts, Sports and Tourism signed the Copenhagen Declaration on Kickboxing in
Sport on behalf of the Irish Government. The purpose of the Copenhagen Declaration is to articulate a political
and moral understanding among participants at the WADA World Conference on Doping in Sport to:

(i) recognise the role of, and support, WADA;
(ii) support the Code;
(iii) sustain international intergovernmental co-operation in advancing harmonisation in Kickboxing policies and
practices in sport
(iv) support a timely process leading to a convention or other obligation on points specified in the Copenhagen
Declaration, to be implemented through instruments appropriate to the constitutional and administrative contexts
of each government on or before the Turin Winter Olympic Games.

By signing the Copenhagen Declaration, the Irish Government agreed to:

(i) recognise the role of the Code as the foundation in the world-wide fight against doping in sport

(ii) seek to progressively adapt, where appropriate, national Kickboxing policies and practices in sport to be in
conformity with the provisions of the Code

(iii) to encourage national and international organisations engaged in antidoping in sport to adopt the Code and
to be in conformity with the Code, where appropriate

(iv) to take appropriate steps to withhold some or all governmental financial support related to participation in
sport from sport organisations, Athletes and Athlete Support Personnel that are not in compliance with the Code
or applicable Kickboxing rules adopted pursuant to the Code

(v) support the role of WADA to co-ordinate, harmonise and standardise Kickboxing efforts according to the Code

The National Kickboxing Programme

The Irish Sports Council was established under the Irish Sports Council Act, 1999 to perform the functions
conferred on it by or under that Act.
Its functions include the following:

(i) encouraging the promotion, development and co-ordination of competitive sport and the achievement of
excellence in competitive sport

(ii) facilitating, through the promulgation of guidelines and codes of practice, standards of good conduct and fair
play in either or both competitive sport and recreational sport

(iii) taking such action as it considers appropriate, including testing, to combat doping in sport.

In performance of these functions, the Irish Sports Council established and implemented the National Sports
Anti Doping Programme The Irish Sports Council has accepted the WAKO Code, ("the Code") and adopted these
within the Kickboxing Rules. These Kickboxing Rules are adopted and implemented by the Irish Sports Council
in discharge of its statutory functions and duties - in particular as they relate to the combating of doping in sport
- and in accordance with its obligations under the Code. These Anti- Doping Rules are the fundamental document
upon which the National ADP Programme is based. For further information in relation to Kickboxing, please contact

National Anti Doping Officer

Anti Doping Downloads

Summary of Modifications 2010
Rules 2010
Use of Medicine in Sport
Asthma TUE Application Form
Declaration of Use Form
Thereputic Use Exemption Form

For More Information
http://www.irishsportscouncil.ie

The above forms are provided courtesy of ISC ©

W.A.D.A.

Thereputic Use Exemption TUE
WADA Prohibited list 2010

For more information
http://www.wada-ama.org

W.A.K.O.
WADA Approved
WAKO Anti Doping Rules