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Return Samples

BIO.02 / PUBLIC SERVICE NETWORK

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Return Samples: public intake, evidence routes and competent specialist services.

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Office output: Return Samples integrated programme finding

Our intake route

Containment facility certificate; Protected sample custody chain; Sample release assessment

A laboratory accepts a sample class outside its evaluated containment

Access an ocean-world research site

Competent service: Planetary Protection Authority

Return a extraterrestrial sample

Competent service: Planetary Protection Authority

Transfer protected research custody

Competent service: Planetary Protection Authority

Receiving role for return samples integrated programme finding

Return Samples programme coordinator

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Authority for return samples integrated programme finding

Subject-specific assessment
A laboratory accepts a sample class outside its evaluated containment
Shared legal framework
Planetary Protection Authority / powers
Handling complaint
Union Ombudsman
Contested legal finding
Union Court of Justice