ethics committee

Also defined in

• Regulation (EU) 2017/745 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 5 April 2017 on medical devices, amending… 32017R0745, Article 2, point (56)
  an independent body established in a Member State in accordance with the law of that Member State and empowered to give opinions for the purposes of this Regulation, taking into account the views of laypersons, in particular patients or patients' organisations
• Regulation (EU) No 536/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 April 2014 on clinical trials on… 32014R0536, Article 2(2), point (11)
  an independent body established in a Member State in accordance with the law of that Member State and empowered to give opinions for the purposes of this Regulation, taking into account the views of laypersons, in particular patients or patients' organisations
• Directive 2001/20/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 4 April 2001 on the approximation of the laws… 32001L0020, Article 2, point (k)
  an independent body in a Member State, consisting of healthcare professionals and non-medical members, whose responsibility it is to protect the rights, safety and wellbeing of human subjects involved in a trial and to provide public assurance of that protection, by, among other things, expressing…