Lodging an administrative appeal with CCMO

If you do not agree with a decision by an accredited MREC you may, if you are a concerned party, lodge an administrative appeal with CCMO. This has to be done within six weeks of the day on which the decision was published. The day of publication is the day on which the decision was signed and sent.

A number of requirements in the General Administrative Law Act [Algemene wet bestuursrecht] (Awb) also have to be fulfilled.

Your  administrative appeal must contain at least the following:

• your name and address;
• a description of the decision against which you are lodging the administrative appeal;
• a date;
• your signature;
• the grounds of the administrative appeal (the reasons why you do not agree with the decision by the MREC).

In order to be able to start processing the f administrative appeal,  CCMO must receive the complete research file, a copy of the decision by the MREC to which your administrative appeal relates and all relevant correspondence with the MREC.

How to submit

• WMO, Embryo Act, MDR and IVDR studies: the signed administrative appeal may be submitted through the Research Portal.
• CTR studies: the signed administrative appeal may be submitted digitally to the CCMO via tc@ccmo.nl.