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Organising a Meeting

• Introduction 
• Initiating a scientific meeting 
• Format of meetings 
• Registration and other costs 
• Meetings expenses
• Liaison with BIRAs
• Meetings venues 
• Pharmaceutical company support 
• Publicity for meetings 
• Meetings reports 
• Meetings checklist 

Pharmaceutical company support

It has been agreed, as a policy of the Association, not to seek direct sponsorship of individual meetings by pharmaceutical companies, even if the meeting is held at the company's site. Sponsorship will be accepted provided the meetings are free from any constraints on their content, and to emphasize this freedom to all members of the Association. No advertisement or presentation of pharmaceutical company interests (e.g. drugs pertinent to the subject of the meeting) is allowed. Commercially-orientated displays, such as those by publishers of scientific or medical text-books, are permissible where they offer a genuinely useful and un-biased service to the researchers likely to attend the meeting.

A secondary advantage of this policy is that potential meeting organizers from academia or small companies are not put in a position where they feel disadvantaged in arranging a meeting by having to make comparisons with "plush" meetings organized elsewhere at company expense.

Exceptions to this policy can, obviously, be made where it is clear that the independence and atmosphere of the meeting is not jeopardized. Thus, for example, it is hoped that companies will not charge for the use of their local lecture theatres.