As the use of the ICF templates for CTR and MDR studies is mandatory since 01/08/2025, the advice below is thus complied with. The ICF templates already include a section ‘Trial at a glance’.
On 3/9/2020, the general assembly of BAREC agrees on the following statement regarding the section “trial at a glance” of the ICF template for interventional clinical trials with IMP on adult patients:
A call for membership of the college for clinical trials has recently been published by the CT college.
Would you like to become a member of the Board of the Clinical Trials College?
The Clinical Trials College is looking for physicians, lawyers, and experts in quality control systems. For more information about the mission, tasks and competences of the College, the law, and its decrees, please visit www.ct-college.be.
A call to candidates was published in the Belgian Official Gazette on 03/08/2020:
If you meet the described conditions, you can send your application by registered letter to the federal Minister of Health, through Mr. Pedro Facon, Director-General of Healthcare, Eurostation, Blok II, Place Victor Horta 40, box 10, 1060 Brussels and this at the latest two months after publication of the call to candidates in the Belgian Official Gazette.
The aim is to provide sponsors and investigators with guidance on how to mitigate the effects of the pandemic in order to protect the safety, well-being and integrity of trial participants and the integrity of the trial.
The new version contains additional or new information about:
Informed consent in trials with COVID-19 patients;
IMP transfer and stocks with patients or at sites;
Communication with authorities of temporary trial halts due to reasons which are unrelated to the safety of the trial participants;
Stocks of in critical vitro diagnostics and other medical devices used in a particular trial;
clinical trials for treatment or prevention of COVID-19,
ongoing clinical trials in Belgium, and
the advice for new non-COVID-19-related clinical trials.
This guidance is supported by the FAMHP, BAREC and the CT-College.
Please note that on some subjects, a more detailed national guidance is being prepared on the conditions for direct distribution of the medicinal product to the patient.
This national guidance is expected to be published by the 25th of March 2020 and will be attuned to the European guidance.
If you would like to read more about this, please consider becoming a Barec-member and acquire access to our member area. Please contact us for more information on becoming a member via: info@barec.be