It proposes replacing standard environmental licensing procedures established by central government with a quicker, more flexible system in which different Brazilian states can decide which licences projects should have.
Ethical approval for the OS samples was obtained from the Cambridgeshire 2 Research Ethics Service, UK (reference 09/H0308/165), and the UCL Biobank for Health and Disease, which is held under the Human Tissue Authority licence 12055: project EC17.1.
Blood samples were taken under UK Home Office Licence (project licence holder: BJH, project licence: 4003214, establishment code: 5002509), ringing under BTO licence (BJH SC3770) and the BOU's "Ethics of Ornithological Research (1995)" was adhered to throughout.
The permit number for the project licence is 40/3344.
All experimental procedures were carried out under Home Office Animals (Scientific) Procedures Act project licence 60/4068 and personal licence 70/1364.
All procedures were performed in licenced institutional premises under UK Home Office project licence No. 80/1974 and approved by a university ethics review board, all approved under the UK Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act (1986).
It was completed under U.K. Home Office project licence number PPL 60/4073, and removal of starlings from the wild was authorized by Natural England (licence number 20121066).
Work was conducted under U.K. Home Office project licence number PPL60/4073, and the removal of starlings from the wild was authorized by Natural England (licence number 20121066).
Getting an environmental licence for any project is another bottleneck.
All animal experiments were approved by the University of Nottingham Animal Welfare and Ethical Review Board and performed in accordance with the UK Home Office Licence rules, under Project Licence 40/3821.
"The whole complexity of the project licence application process" means these are more difficult and time-consuming to write than a full-scale Medical Research Council grant, she says.
