The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) Executive Committee and Foundation Board is meeting in Montreal, Canada this weekend to evaluate the implementation of steroid and anti-doping regulations by national anti-doping agencies. Countries that have failed to full implement the anti-doping code espoused by WADA will be cited as non-compliant. Compliance to the WADA code by signatories is considered mandatory. The first WADA Code Compliance Report will be posted on the WADA website on November 25, 2008 (”Press Conference with WADA President on November 23 Following Foundation Board Meeting,” November ).

The World Anti-Doping Code—the document harmonizing regulations regarding anti-doping in all sport and all countries—assigns WADA the responsibility of monitoring and reporting on the implementation and enforcement of the Code by its signatories. The objective of this monitoring and reporting is to ensure efficiency of the harmonized fight against doping in sport and fairness to the athletes so that they benefit from strong and fair anti-doping policies and protection that are the same for all, no matter the sport, nationality or country where tested. Following a two-year review process, the Board will discuss the compliance report and determine which anti-doping organizations are not compliant. As required under the Code, the list of non-compliant organizations will be posted on WADA’s Web site on November 25.
 

The WADA board will also the achievement of milestone of over 100 countries who have ratified the UNESCO International Convention against Doping in Sport which seeks to “apply the force of international law to anti-doping.”

WADA has explicitly stated their desire for all national governments to criminalize the use of anabolic steroids and other performance enhancing drugs as defined in the WADA code. WADA pressuring governments to think alike and conform to accept its policy as the defacto international anti-steroid policy.

International Olympic Committe, in addition to WADA, is pressuring Canada (host of 2010 Vancouver Olympics) and the United Kingdom (host of 2012 London Olympics) to criminalize steroid possession prior to the beginning of the games in their respective countries. The possession of steroids for non-medical purposes is currently permitted in Canada and the UK. The criminalization of anabolic steroids (possession) may be a precondition for future hosts of Olympic Games. Such is the disturbing nature of the trend towards the internationalization of steroid law.