{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2014-536/article-72",
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  "legislation": "eur/2014/536",
  "legislation_title": "Regulation (EU) No 536/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 April 2014 on clinical trials on medicinal products for human use, and repealing Directive 2001/20/EC (Text with EEA relevance)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2014-536",
  "path": "article/72",
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  "number": "72",
  "heading": "Co-sponsorship",
  "text": "1. Without prejudice to Article 74, where a clinical trial has more than one sponsor, all sponsors shall have the responsibilities of a sponsor set out in this Regulation, unless the sponsors decide otherwise in a written contract setting out their respective responsibilities. Where the contract does not specify to which sponsor a given responsibility is attributed, that responsibility shall lie with all sponsors.\n2. By way of derogation from paragraph 1, the sponsors shall be jointly responsible for establishing:\n(a) a sponsor responsible for compliance with the obligations of a sponsor in the authorisation procedures set out in Chapters II and III;\n(b) a sponsor responsible for being a contact point for receiving all questions from subjects, investigators or any Member State concerned regarding the clinical trial and providing answers to them;\n(c) a sponsor responsible for implementing the measures taken in accordance with Article 77.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2014/536/article/72",
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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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