Approval is given when a school meets the minimal requirements under state law, such as for compulsory attendance; approval does not require any evaluation of the school's program.
Scientists had also shown concern at the introduction of compulsory ethical reviews and approval for every experiment involving animals a move that would have seriously increased bureaucratic load, said Lemon.
The secretary of state for communities and local government gave approval for the compulsory purchase of Dreamland following a public inquiry.
As the participation in the National Health Telephone Interview Surveys is voluntary, at no costs to the survey participants, and because the study has no medical relevance for individual survey participants (no medical research involving human subjects is being conducted) an ethics approval was not compulsory.
He says that his association has been trying to get approval for a compulsory-purchase order for more than three years.
According to the national regulations of Lithuania, the ethical approval of the Lithuanian Bioethics Committee is compulsory for biomedical research [ 46].
An encouraging sign in this regard is that the US Congress, as a condition of renewing 'fast-track' (yes or no) approval of trade agreements, required the USTR to stop pushing for limitations to compulsory licensing, 'linkage' evergreening, and patent term extensions for delayed marketing approval.
The three main areas (registries, biobanks, and interventional research) have in common the idea that when human research is involved, approval by a research EC is compulsory.
In the 90's it was not compulsory (as it is nowadays) to have the approval of an appropriate ethics committee for observational studies in Spain.
Further ethical approval and material transfer agreement were not compulsory at the time the study was initiated.
Her memoir, Approval Junkie: Adventures in Caring too Much, should be compulsory reading for anyone who has known - and confronted - the pain of trying too hard to please.
