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REGULATION 21 APPENDIX 1 engaging in any fraudulent conduct to alter results or prevent normal procedures from occurring. Target Testing: Selection of specific Players for Testing based on criteria set forth in the International Standard for Testing and Investigations. Team Sport: A sport in which the substitution of players is permitted during a Competition. For the avoidance of doubt, the Game, including all forms thereof, is a Team Sport. Testing: The parts of the Doping Control process involving test distribution planning, Sample collection, Sample handling, and Sample transport to the laboratory. Testing Pool: Any International-Level Player who is eligible to be part of World Rugby’s Out of Competition Testing programme and who is not part of World Rugby’s Registered Testing Pool. Trafficking: Selling, giving, transporting, sending, delivering or distributing (or Possessing for any such purpose) a Prohibited Substance or Prohibited Method (either physically or by any electronic or other means) by a Player, Player Support Person or any other Person subject to the jurisdiction of an Anti-Doping Organisation to any third party; provided, however, this definition shall not include the actions of "bona fide" medical personnel involving a Prohibited Substance used for genuine and legal therapeutic purposes or other acceptable justification, and shall not include actions involving Prohibited Substances which are not prohibited in Out-of- Competition Testing unless the circumstances as a whole demonstrate such Prohibited Substances are not intended for genuine and legal therapeutic purposes or are intended to enhance sport performance. TUE: Therapeutic Use Exemption, as described in Regulation 21.4.4. TUE Committee: The panel established by the relevant Anti-Doping Organisation to consider requests for TUEs. UNESCO Convention: The International Convention against Doping in Sport adopted by the 33rd session of the UNESCO General Conference on 19 October, 2005 including any and all amendments adopted by the States Parties to the Convention and the Conference of Parties to the International Convention against Doping in Sport. Use: The utilisation, application, ingestion, injection or consumption by any means whatsoever of any Prohibited Substance or Prohibited Method. WADA: The World Anti-Doping Agency. See Comment 59 All other terms which are capitalised in these Anti-Doping Rules and not defined herein shall have the meanings ascribed to them in Regulation 1. Last update: 14 January, 2015 401


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