From request to review
Define the bounded proposal
For register a long-duration human study, record the requester, location, scope and responsible receiving office. The receipt identifies the clock and competent jurisdiction.
Gate: Location and competence are recorded
Owner: Bioethics & Future Generations CouncilReview methods and raw evidence
Assess protocol and consent; reconcile it with risk and benefit analysis and independent participant support. A missing document has an explicit alternative-evidence route rather than silent rejection.
Gate: Evidence is complete or an alternative is agreed
Owner: Bioethics & Future Generations CouncilObtain independent specialist findings
Ask Health & Biomedical Commission for the finding within its own powers. The consultation records the specific unresolved question, evidence version and requested response.
Gate: A specialist finding is recorded
Owner: Health & Biomedical CommissionResolve protection and future burdens
Long-lived projects must name the people and institutions bearing future burdens Publish or privately communicate the resolution, including dissent and consent limits.
Gate: The stated safeguard is resolved
Owner: Equality & Accessibility CommissionIssue a conditional research decision
An ethics opinion and required protections before recruitment. The decision also names the accountable official role, effective event, conditions, review office and follow-up duties.
Gate: Reasons, conditions and review route are available
Owner: Bioethics & Future Generations CouncilMonitor stop conditions and review
Preserve the source record, decision reasons and conditions for register a long-duration human study. A service complaint routes to the Ombudsman; a contested legal restriction routes to the Union Court.
Gate: Follow-up owner and record custody are named
Owner: Union Ombudsman
Exceptions and alternate routes
Required evidence is unavailable
Record the missing item and propose a witness, existing register reference or independently verified substitute. The completeness review remains open.
Interplanetary communication is interrupted
Record local receipt time and the delegated action available. Preserve a mirrored log for later reconciliation; do not invent a remote approval.
An adverse finding affects the requester
Provide the finding, allow a response, disclose the review route and preserve essential service continuity where applicable.
Institutional interfaces
Coordinates accessible care and research across gravity environments and long travel times.
Funds open science while preserving independent peer review and scientific integrity.
Ensures equal civic participation across disability, language, origin, gravity adaptation and life circumstance.
Start the record
Prepare a requestThe assessment behind the stage diagram
Independent reviewers examine recruitment, withdrawal, privacy, ongoing support and the fate of obligations if the sponsor closes. Clinical and protection findings remain with their competent bodies.
The protocol, consent process and participant protections identify what the study proposes. Dependence on an employer or essential-service operator is assessed as a consent concern, not ignored by a signature.
Possible decisions and what follows
A bounded ethical finding, required protocol revisions, a consent renewal condition or a reasoned negative finding.
Changes in exposure, sponsorship or purpose can require renewed consent. Withdrawal, later care and record custody remain explicit duties.
Duties after the finding
Keep the scope accurate
Tell the receiving office about a material change in location, activity, operator, record custodian or requested result. The original receipt remains in the history.
Respect source custody
Provide purpose-specific references and authorised representations. Personal, clinical, commercial and protected scientific records have different access scopes.
Respond to a qualified finding
Read the conditions and the institution that owns them. A request for further evidence identifies the specific unresolved issue and the route for an alternative.
Preserve the follow-up
Changes in exposure, sponsorship or purpose can require renewed consent. Withdrawal, later care and record custody remain explicit duties.
Disagreement, assistance and evidence alternatives
A completeness query names the unresolved evidence and the alternative the receiving office can assess. An administrative complaint concerns service handling; a legal appeal concerns a finding and its competent remedy. A public petition asks a representative institution to examine a wider issue.