AFL General Counsel Andrew Dillon has today written to all football managers and the AFLPA with the AFL’s updated Prohibited Treatments list, and the final Controlled Treatment list, under the AFL’s Anti-Doping Code.

The Prohibited Treatments List and the Controlled Treatments List are part of a raft of changes to the AFL’s Anti-Doping Code passed by the AFL Commission in October 2013.

Those changes ensure the AFL’s Anti-Doping Code goes beyond the WADA requirements, and strengthens regulations and requirements on clubs in relation to the role of club doctors and the use of treatments and supplementation.

The 2014 Prohibited Treatments List has had minor changes.

The Controlled Treatment List has been finalised by the AFL, and comes into force on March 15, 2015.

Under the Controlled Treatments List, all clubs are required to maintain a register of treatments, and the details of those treatments are monitored by the AFL.

The AFL has consulted with all clubs about their responsibilities to maintain the register and to report to the AFL, and all clubs have participated in a trial of the new AFL database that will monitor and oversee all and any treatments listed on the Controlled List. Clubs had previously been advised that the rules relating to the Controlled Treatments would come into force once a database had been built to properly record and store the information.

Mr. Dillon said that all clubs are aware of their obligations to maintain an accurate and up to date Register, and that from 15 March, 2015 the new requirements on the Controlled Treatments will be strictly enforced.

The changes passed by the Commission in 2013 also included:

  • The banning of any injections by anyone other than an appropriately qualified medical practitioner and only to the extent it is necessary to treat a legitimate medical condition.
  • The banning of any person at a club possessing needles or injectables other than the Club Medical Officer.
  • The requirement that Clubs have proper storage and inventories of treatments on their premises.