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Edition 32 - IPCAA Code of Conduct updated

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IPCAA Code of Conduct updated

It is the IPCAA’s policy that no company may become a member without subscribing to the Code of Conduct. This Code, established in 1991 after consultation with the European Union and the European Federation of the Pharmaceutical Industry (EFPIA), provides information and recommendations on the successful management of the venues, exhibitions, travel and accommodation costs, hospitality and scientific content of medical congresses.

In addition to its Code of Conduct, the Association also maintains Guidelines to help clarify some areas of congress organisation that have proved contentious. These Guidelines are particularly concerned with the costs of participating in international congresses and the number of congresses staged in a single therapeutic area. IPCAA policy, as stated in the Guidelines, is in favour of keeping costs “within acceptable limits” and is against “mushrooming” of congresses.

The Guidelines also provide organisers with information on congress venues, budgets and other financial considerations, exhibition space, delegate registration, congress-related publishing, satellite and sponsored meetings, social events and payments to speakers.

These formal documents of IPCAA are now combined in a fifth edition, reflecting changes in the congress environment and particularly the increasing regulatory constraints, and we hope they continue to prove useful to everyone engaged in the organisation of medical congresses.

It should be noted that we have decided not to reissue these documents in the form of the traditional printed booklet – all details may be freely downloaded from the public section of the IPCAA website (www.ipcaa.org)