TUE Criteria

What are the Criteria for Granting a TUE?

All of the following four criteria must be met (for more details, please refer to the WADA International Standard for Therapeutic Use Exemptions [ISTUE] Article 4.2): 

  • The athlete has a clear diagnosed medical condition which requires treatment using a prohibited substance or method; 
  • The therapeutic use of the substance will not, on the balance of probabilities, produce significant enhancement of performance beyond the athlete’s normal state of health; 
  • The prohibited substance or method is an indicated treatment for the medical condition, and there is no reasonable permitted therapeutic alternative; 
  • The necessity to use that substance or method is not a consequence of the prior use (without a TUE) of a substance or method that was prohibited at the time of use.