Rio 2016 hosts Brazil are among three countries facing the threat of being declared non-compliant ©WADA

The National Anti-Doping Organisations (NADOs) of Azerbaijan, Brazil and Guatemala face the threat of being declared non-compliant by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) in November unless pending issues are resolved.

The threat follows a meeting of WADA’s independent Compliance Review Committee (CRC) in Montreal on September 3.

It was deemed the three NADOs in question were not currently in compliance with the 2015 WADA Code.

"Unless pending issues are resolved, the CRC will submit recommendations of declarations of non-compliance to the November Foundation Board," a WADA statement read.

Olympic and Paralympic hosts Brazil were criticised by WADA last month, after halting its drug testing programme during the build-up to Rio 2016.

The country's Sports Ministry confirmed no anti-doping tests were carried out between July 1 and July 24, a move described by WADA as "unacceptable".

Brazil claimed the decision was made after WADA suspended its testing laboratory in Rio de Janeiro in June.

The suspension was subsequently lifted which led to WADA questioning why the second largest team at the Olympics was not being properly monitored at such a "crucial time".

Brazil were briefly placed on a watch-list by WADA’s Foundation Board last November, but the establishment of a unique Brazilian anti-doping tribunal and the implementation of the Code within the Brazilian legal system saw them avoid being declared non-compliant in March.

Carlos Nuzman, President of Rio 2016 and the Brazilian Olympic Committee, last month denied he put pressure on the National Anti-Doping Agency to ease back on the amount of drugs testing it did ©Getty Images
Carlos Nuzman, President of Rio 2016 and the Brazilian Olympic Committee, last month denied he put pressure on the National Anti-Doping Agency to ease back on the amount of drugs testing it did ©Getty Images

Azerbaijan were threatened with non-compliance by WADA in July, following a meeting at which concerns were addressed.

Some assurances were given, WADA said afterwards, but a "whole range of recommendations from previous reports have still not been acted upon".

Concerns have also been raised by the International Rowing Federation after they discovered that the Azerbaijan Rowing and Canoe Federation had carried out just two tests during the whole of 2015.

Azeri officials claimed they did not have the funds to carry out testing because their budget had been taken up by hosting the inaugural European Games in Baku last year.

WADA have stated that the latest meeting of the CRC also saw discussions take place over a compliance questionnaire for Code signatories, a compliance audit programme and the use of the ADAMS system.

Richard McLaren’s report into state sponsored doping by Russia at the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics, which also included several summer sports, was also discussed.

The results management monitoring process, involvement of National Federations in the implementation of anti-doping programmes and the role of regional anti-doping agencies in the compliance monitoring programme were among other topics explored.

WADA state that some of the matters will be the subject of recommendations to the WADA Foundation Board.