Ethical Governance Framework and Ethics Check for ADOPT BBMRI-­‐ERIC

The aim of this Ethical Governance Framework is to enable any future project members of BBMRI-ERIC to operate within agreed terms with respect to participant consent, ethics committee approvals and national regulations, ensuring researchers supply and access data whilst working under a common ethical framework.  The draft framework presented below has been written on the basis of other EU funded projects works in order to ensure reliability and consistency of the systems in place, with the concern that very different samples and datasets can be utilised in an ethically­-coherent manner to maximise research benefit, while acknowledging the responsibilities and obligations that are owed to research participants.