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The Project - Constitution - Article 5 |
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EHDN COMMITTEES 5.1. |
Committees. The EHDN shall have a standing
Scientific and Bioethics Advisory
Committee. From time-to-time the Executive Committee may appoint such
other
committees and task forces to assist it with the oversight of the
activities of
EHDN with such mandates and responsibilities as the Executive Committee
may
determine.
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Scientific and Bioethics Advisory
Committee.
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| 5.2.1. | Responsibilities. The Scientific and Bioethics Advisory Committee shall facilitate
Huntington’s disease research in Europe by
acting as a source of scientific and bioethical knowledge and advice to members
of the EHDN network. As such the Scientific and Bioethics Advisory Committee
may consider and provide recommendations to members and the Executive Committee
concerning:
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| | 5.2.1.1. | applications for access to EHDN resources including data or biomaterials,
| | | 5.2.1.2. | applications for EHDN endorsement of non-clinical or clinical projects,
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| | | 5.2.1.3. | such other scientific questions as members may raise.
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| 5.2.2. | Members;
Election. The Scientific and Bioethics Advisory Committee shall consist of twelve
elected regular and associated members intended to reflect both basic
scientists and clinicians and to include a broad representation of the research
interests of EHDN. The members of the Scientific and Bioethics Advisory
Committee shall be divided into four, as nearly equal as possible, classes
numbered 1, 2 3 and 4. Members of classes 1 and 2 shall be elected together,
and members of classes 3 and 4 shall be elected together at alternating Plenary
Meetings. Members of classes 1 and 3 shall begin their terms immediately upon
election at a Plenary meeting and members of classes 2 and 4 shall begin their
terms upon the first anniversary of the Plenary Meeting at which they were
elected. The provisions of sections 4.2 and 4.4 shall apply, mutatis mutandi,
to their election to the Scientific and Bioethics Advisory Committee. Members
of the Scientific and Bioethics Advisory Committee may not be re-elected for
consecutive terms, but may be re-elected if the terms are not consecutive.
| | 5.2.3. | Chair;
Procedures. Each year upon new members commencing service on the Scientific and
Bioethics Advisory Committee, the members of the committee shall select from
among their number a person to be the chair. The members of the Scientific and
Bioethics Advisory Committee may, from time-to-time, adopt such procedures for
the holding of meetings and the conduct of its activities as they consider
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