Press Release: World Anti-Doping Agency adopts revised data protection standard and continues successful dialogue with the EU

Meeting in Montreal, Canada, on Saturday 9 May, the Executive Committee of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) adopted a revised International Standard for the Protection of Privacy (ISPP). The revised Standard replaces the Standard that entered into force on 1 January 2009, which posed problems from the perspective of EU legislation on the protection of personal data. The Commission greeted the adoption of the revised Standard as a successful outcome of cooperation between the EU and WADA and is looking forward to continued dialogue and cooperation with WADA over data protection issues, in particular at the EU Conference on Anti-Doping in Athens on 13-15 May.