Treaty Office

The Convention lays down binding rules with a view to harmonising anti-doping regulations, in particular:

• making it harder to obtain and use banned substances such as anabolic steroids;
• assisting the funding of anti-doping tests;
• establishing a link between the strict application of anti-doping rules and awarding subsidies to sports organisations or individual sportsmen and sportswomen;
• regular doping control procedures during and outside competitions, including in other countries.

The Convention contains a reference list of banned substances. A monitoring group specially set up for this purpose periodically re-examines this list and monitors the application of the Convention.

• The 2021 List of Prohibited Substances and Methods.
• The 2020 List of Prohibited Substances and Methods.
• Translations sorted by non-official languages.
• Note for information - Accession to the Anti-Doping Convention by a State which is not a member of the Council of Europe.

• Directorate General of Democracy – Sports and Ethics
• Directorate General Human Rights and Rule of Law – Co-operation Group to Combat Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking in Drugs (Pompidou Group) and its Chart of Accessions or other Participations
• Directorate General of Democracy – Enlarged Partial Agreement on Sport (EPAS) and its Chart of Accessions or other Participations
• World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) and its List of Prohibited Substances Archives