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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2013-713/annex-I/article-2",
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  "legislation": "eudn/2013/713",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Implementing Decision of 29 November 2013 on setting up the European Clinical Research Infrastructure Network (ECRIN) as a European Research Infrastructure Consortium (ECRIN-ERIC) (2013/713/EU)",
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  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Objectives",
  "text": "1. ECRIN-ERIC shall constitute a Pan-European distributed clinical research infrastructure with as objectives to provide advice and services to multinational clinical research, in any medical field and for any category of clinical research, observing high scientific, ethical and quality standards, in order to strengthen the capacity of the European Union to explore the determinants of diseases and to develop and optimise the use of diagnostic, prevention and treatment strategies.\n2. ECRIN-ERIC shall:\n(a) provide support to multicentre clinical studies involving at least two countries;\n(b) be primarily accessible to investigator-initiated clinical research, but also open to industry sponsored clinical research projects, originating from any country;\n(c) encourage cooperation and harmonisation;\n(d) be a distributed infrastructure, based on the connection of existing national or regional clinical research networks;\n(e) promote common standards, tools and practice that will impact on the structuring of national networks;\n(f) promote training of investigators and all categories of professionals and lay persons involved in clinical research;\n(g) promote quality, transparency and optimal use of clinical research data;\n(h) communicate with patients and citizens on the challenges and opportunities raised by clinical research.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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