WADA’s Compliance Review Committee recommended that RUSADA be declared as still non-compliant, after finding non-conformities relating to national legislation, which were identified in September 2022, had not been addressed.

WADA said RUSADA would lose its WADA privileges, meaning its representatives would be ineligible to hold any WADA office, while RUSADA would also be ineligible to host any event either hosted or organised by WADA.

RUSADA representatives would also be unable to participate in any WADA observer or outreach programmes, and RUSADA would not receive any WADA funding relating to the development of activities or participation in programmes.

Other sanctions include RUSADA representatives being ineligible to sit as members of Boards or Committees, or other bodies of any signatory to the World Anti-Doping Code.

Russia’s flag is also unable to be flown at regional, continental and World Championships, and will not be flown at the Olympics and Paralympics under the notice of the new consequences.

The reinstatement conditions are that the non-conformities related to national legislation are corrected in full, and that RUSADA respects and observes all the consequences.

Cases resulting from WADA’s retrieval of data and samples from the Moscow Laboratory in 2019 continue to proceed.

A total of 218 cases have so far been successfully convicted and sanctioned, with a further 63 having been charged and many more cases still being actively pursued.

Meanwhile the national anti-doping organisations of Bermuda and South Africa have been declared non-compliant due to a failure to properly implement the World Anti-Doping Code into their legal systems.

Consequences include that the countries will not be able to stage regional, continental and World Championships, and that the country’s flags will not be used at any of these events or Olympic and Paralympic Games.

Elsewhere six national anti-doping organisations have been placed on a watchlist, giving them four months to correct outstanding non-conformities - Algeria, Angola, Ecuador, Mongolia, Morocco and the Philippines.   

Following the meeting WADA also announced updates to the 2024 list of prohibited substances and methods, with narcotic tramadol, a strong painkiller, a notable addition to the list.

The ban on tramadol will be effective from January 1 2024.

Initial discussions surrounding the development of WADA’s Strategic Plan, covering the period of 2025 to 2029, also took place.