Article 11 Effective access to services and data policy
United Kingdom
Effective access for researchers to ECRIN-ERIC services shall be provided based on scientific excellence and shall not be restricted to Members or Observers of ECRIN-ERIC.
Access shall be based on internal and external expertise: services are provided pending acceptance of the project by the Scientific Board, based on the scientific assessment by external peer-reviewers. The decision to provide services shall be made by the Director-General upon recommendation of the Network Committee, taking into account:
the assessment by the Scientific Board;
the logistical assessment performed by the Scientific Partners as reflected in the recommendation of the Network Committee.
Application, assessment procedures and evaluation criteria shall be defined by the Scientific Board and made publicly available at the ECRIN-ERIC website and Rules of Internal Procedure.
ECRIN-ERIC shall provide services at a not-for-profit rate for non-economic activities.
Access criteria shall include a commitment to optimise the use of the clinical trial data through registration of the clinical trial protocol before inclusion of patients in a publicly available registry approved by the World Health Organization (WHO), and through a commitment to report the study results. ECRIN-ERIC shall ensure, once the study is published, access to the raw, anonymised clinical trial data for the scientific community.