European CRO Federation
Budget
€100 — €0
EP Access
0
accredited persons
Staff
6
2 FTE
EU Grants
None
Mission & Goals
The objective of EUCROF (the European CRO Federation), a non-profit organisation founded in 2005, is to promote Clinical Research by improving the knowledge, competence/expertise and skills of Contract/Clinical Research Organisations (CROs) in Europe. The Federation represents and supports the interests of CROs in Europe towards regulatory bodies, pharmaceutical, biotech, medical device, patients associations and other healthcare-related entities, within the field of clinical research. As one of the stakeholders, EUCROF is interested in promoting and supporting high-quality clinical trials by observing internationally agreed ethical, technical and scientific principles. EUCROF organises and supports training and education programmes to increase the quality of clinical research and to improve collaboration and interaction amongst all stakeholders in the field in Europe. Active participation in international congresses and meetings further underlines the significant role of CRO (...)
EU Legislative Interests
During the last years, EUCROF has performed many activities as stakeholder, invited to represent the Contract Research Organisations point of view on many Clinical Research issues, new rules and regulations during formal meetings with the European Medicinal Agency (EMA), Paediatric Research Consortia, Patient Associations and Conferences on Clinical Research: -EMA: EU clinical trials portal and Union database: meeting with stakeholders, Amsterdam -EMA: Participation to UAT for EU Portal - GCP Inspectors WG and interested parties Joint Meeting -Enpr-EMA meetings EUCROF has created 15 active working groups: 1. Clinical Research Barometer 2. Clinical Trials Centres 3. Clinical Trials Legislation 4. Clinical Trials Logistics 5. Communication 6. Early Phase Research 7. Events and Training 8. IMPACT - Improving Clinical Trials in Europe 9. Innovative Medicines 10. Medical Devices 11. New Technologies 12. Paediatrics 13. Patients' Engagement 14. Pharmacovigilance EUCROF also has a Talent Engagement Task Force. EUCROF held its 8th European Conference on Clinical Research in Copenhagen (Denmark) on 2 - 4 February 2025.
Communication Activities
By October 2014 EUCROF releases its Position Paper on “Transparency in Early Phase Clinical Research” published as official comment by EMA 18 September 2015 EMA has published the Draft appendix on disclosure rules to the “Functional specifications for the EU portal and EU database to be audited - EMA/42176/2014 - EUCROF submission of expert opinion on publication of Phase 1 summary results in relation to patent protection was essential contribution to the improvement of the document. The EUCROF GDPR Code of Conduct has been approved bt the EU GDPR authorities'. It is the first and up to now unique Code Of Conduct related to Clinical Trial Transparency Conduct.
Interests Represented
Promotes their own interests or the collective interests of their members
Member Of
The EUCROF is collaborating with further organizations: 1. Association of Clinical Research Organizations or ACRO (in the USA) 2. EFGCP, European Federation for Good Clinical Practice 3. EPF Moreover, there is ongoing collaboration with representatives of the pharmaceutical industry, such as EFPIA.
Organisation Members
www.eucrof.eu
Additional Information
The costs are low compared to the number and time of people involved because their contribution is mostly on a voluntary basis, without compensation
Commissioner Meetings
No recorded meetings with EU commissioners.