Copies of ethical approvals

The proposed research will be submitted to an ethics committee at the national level, if such committees do exist and approval by them is legally required. We know that this is not the case in several countries. In the Netherlands, for example, such committees do not exist for the social sciences and humanities. However, if such committees do exist and approval is required in any of the countries where we operate, copies of ethical approvals by the competent Ethics Committees will be submitted to the EU before the end of month 5.