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NuGO Guidelines

All guidelines are set up according to international (European) rules for which a consensus was achieved and documented. However, domestic law prevail these guidelines.

These guidelines apply to research involving

1. intervention on a person [see Council of Europe. Additional Protocol to the Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine, concerning Biomedical research, Strasbourg 25.1.2005]
2. biological material (e.g. tissue, blood) to be removed and stored
   1. in relation to an intervention [see Council of Europe. Additional Protocol to the Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine, concerning Biomedical research, Strasbourg 2005;
      see Recommendation Rec(2006)4 of the Committee of Ministers to member states on research on biological materials of human origin (Adopted by the Committee of Ministers on 15 March 2006 at the 958th meeting of the Ministers' deputies), Article 11]
   2. for all other study designs/aspects [see Recommendation Rec(2006)4 of the Committee of Ministers to member states on research on biological materials of human origin (Adopted by the Committee of Ministers on 15 March 2006 at the 958th meeting of the Ministers' deputies), Article 11]
3. biological material that was removed for a different purpose [see Council of Europe. Draft Recommendation on research on biological materials of human origin, Strasbourg, November 2005, Article 11]