ACC grants codes right to inform THE Australian Crime Commission has granted the country's major football codes permission to inform their clubs which ones it suspects of using performance-enhancing drugs. "Following a request from the Australian Football League (AFL) and National Rugby League (NRL), I have granted permission for both codes to confidentially notify the specific clubs within their respective codes that were identified in Project Aperio,"" ACC chief executive John Lawler said. Once notified, a club may choose to make it publically known that they have been notified. "The Australian Crime Commission can not name clubs and individuals, as they are protected under Section 60 of the Australian Crime Commission Act 2002 which protects the rights of persons against reputational damage and the right to a fair trial."" It's already been made public that Essendon is being investigated by the Australian Sports Anti-Doping Agency (ASADA) to determine whether several Bombers players took performance-enhancing drugs, possibly without knowledge they were doing so. AFL chief executive Andrew Demetriou said today his organisation was told by the ACC the identity of another club which had one player suspected of using a performance-enhancing substance. He said the AFL had sought clarification from the ACC so it could inform the club of the findings. Demetriou said the league had already been given permission to tell clubs that had been identified as vulnerable to prohibited drugs, whether that included illicit or performance-enhancing drugs.