📋 Tender Overview
The initiative was dispatched in general and in particular, for which reason it was able to complete its second process, in the Chamber of Deputies. Likewise, the Senate Chamber unanimously approved and left one step away from becoming law, the project that uniquely and exceptionally authorizes the transit of official vehicles that will be used in the XIX Pan American Games and VII Parapan American Games.
Unanimously, the Senate Chamber dispatched the project that standardizes Law No. 19,712, on Sports, to the standards and provisions of the new World Anti-Doping Code.
In this way, the initiative was able to complete its second process in the Lower House.
The purpose of the legal text is to adapt the internal regulations to the new standards contemplated by the World Anti-Doping Code, in accordance with which national anti-doping organizations must be independent -in their activities and operational decisions- from governments and sports entities of various kinds; as well as incorporate other adjustments related to the integration, operation and attributions of those entities.
Senator Alfonso De Urresti , in his capacity as president of the Committee on Culture, Heritage and Sport, reported on the initiative and explained that the aforementioned Code is the fundamental document around which the World Anti-Doping Program in Sport revolves.
The Sports Minister, Jaime Pizarro, also emphasized the importance of adapting these regulations and complying with international protocols.
Senators Sebastián Keitel , Alfonso De Urresti and Francisco Chahuán took the floor .
On occasion, they agreed that this legislation improves the principles of transparency for sport in general and explained that it is also essential to educate about the practices and substances that are considered to be part of doping, since infractions often occur more due to ignorance than by intention.
They also made them see the importance of sports works that will last as well as the possibility of spreading ancestral sports.
FACILITATE TRANSPORTATION
Likewise, the Chamber of the Senate unanimously approved and left one step away from becoming law, the project that uniquely and exceptionally authorizes the transit of official vehicles that will be used in the XIX Pan American Games and VII Parapan American Games that will be held in Chile in the coming months (bulletin 16.088-15).
This is an initiative that seeks to facilitate the transfer of leaders, judges, coaches and athletes from 41 countries in the Americas, who will participate in this event.
This was explained by the Minister of Sport, Jaime Pizarro , who explained that almost 9,000 athletes will participate in both games, in addition to technicians, official teams and the entire workforce that must move easily.
In this sense, the president of the Transport and Telecommunications Commission, Senator Enrique Van Rysselberghe , explained that within the commitments assumed by Chile by hosting the "largest multi-sports event in America", is to provide free transportation and safe for those who participate.
