Advisory boards organisation

OECD (1998b) Report of the Second Meeting of the Joint National Coordinators Meeting/Risk Assessment Advisory Board (NCM/RAAB) Working Group on Endocrine Disrupter Testing and Assessment (EDTA Task Force), 12-13 November 1998. Paris, Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development. 

Advisory boards are not considered promotional and differ from other types of company-organised meeting that have an educational content but are considered promotional. 

Advisory boards must be organised appropriately and their objectives clearly defined or they may be considered as promotion or disguised promotion. The organisation of the advisory board and the rationale for it must be able to withstand independent scrutiny. Figure 4.1 represents the organisation of advisory boards and each area is considered in this chapter. 

Although the advisory board is not promotional (if it is organised correctly), the initial invitation is considered promotional, in the same way as any mailing to a healthcare professional is, because the invitee may ultimately not want to be on the advisory board. 

If the advisory board is correctly organised, the content is not normally considered promotional. It is quite legitimate for unlicensed and off-label information to be discussed at the advisory board, but care must be taken in the meeting s organisation to ensure that the content is not allowed to slip into the promotional arena. Therefore it is important to avoid the following ... 

No social activity should be organised in conjunction with advisory board/consultant panels other than providing refreshments or a modest meal. The guidelines with respect to travel and hospitality also apply to travel and hospitality related to advisory board/consultant panels. 

An advisory board/consultant panel may be organised by international affiliates. These meetings, if held outside Canada, may include a maximum of 10 Canadian healthcare professionals, per brand, per year, who should be experts in their fields. Honoraria and reimbursement of travel and accommodation expenses may be provided as indicated above, provided that a consultancy agreement is in place. 

I would take this opportunity to thank the members of the Organising Committee and of the Scientific Advisory Board for all their efforts in preparing this meeting and also the IAEA for co-sponsoring the meeting which, I am sure, will be a successful one. 

The Director-General wishes to inform the States Parties of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) that he has established a new trust fund, the Trust Fund for the Scientific Advisory Board (hereinafter the Trust Fund ). The purpose of this Trust... 

In accordance with paragraph 8 of the Terms of Reference of the Scientific Advisory Board adopted by the Conference of the States Parties in decision C-ll/DEC.lO, the Directoi General was to provide, after notification of the Executive Council, the rules of procedure for the organisation and the fimctioning of the Scioitific Advisory Board and the temporary working groups of scientific experts. 

The Director-General shall provide, through the Technical Secretariat, administrative and technical support for the preparation, organisation and implementation of activities of the Scientific Advisory Board. The same support shall be provided to the temporary working groups. 

In specifying the criteria against which the products or the quality system of an organisation are evaluated and how they should be assessed, a certification body has to establish working documents. The working documents are part of a certification scheme that reflects the content and functioning of the certification. Inherent to certification is a structure that should enable the participation of all relevant parties concerned to approve a certification scheme. Representation on an Advisory Board and or in an impartial committee of experts forms the means to take into account the views of the significant interested parties. 

A representative of the participating companies will be member of the Industrial Advisory Board (lAB). Once a year FEMP organises a meeting between the FEMP and lAB boards. At this meeting various subjects are discussed like the course contents, project work, etc. 

The Board is, by law, served by two advisory committees, one for human emd one for veterinary medicines. In addition, it is entitled to set up and dissolve subcommittees to serve its functions. Currently, the sub-committee structure is as shown in Figure la. The Executive Board is composed of the Heads of Department all other sub-committees are made up of external experts. The sub-committees look in detail at the assessment process, and particularly problem applications and recommendations for rejection. Figure lb shows the internal organisation of the Board and the main functions of its various departments. 

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