The “Central European Anti-Doping Organization” (CEADO) was founded on May 28th 2019 in Budapest. The founding members are NADOs from, in alphabetical order, Austria, Croatia, Hungary, Poland, Serbia, Slovakia and Slovenia. On December 1st 2020, the NADO of Czech Republic joined CEADO. The countries share not only a long historical relationship but also common values and ideas.
An idea that was born years ago and was finally put in place with the main goal to strengthen and support the Anti-Doping work to the benefit of the clean athletes not only in the member countries of CEADO but for all clean athletes.
CEADO is working together with WADA and all relevant stakeholders to the benefit of the clean athletes worldwide.
The ITA has signed a cooperation agreement with CEADO in January 2021 in order to increase the efficiency of the anti-doping efforts of both organisations.