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member or his/ her relative has received or plans to receive in future a financial

benefit from a firm or a representative body related to the intervention under

assessment during the last 2-3 years or any other product of service that is

specific to an agenda item under consideration for HTA by HTAIn or associated
committees, it will fall into financial personal COI.

 Financial non-personal: If a member of belongs to an institution, firm,

association or company that gains or perceived to gain a direct financial benefit

e.g. sponsorship, product manufacturing contracts, monetary funds to conduct
research or production then the representative member of that institute falls

into financial non-personal interest.

4.2. Objective

The objective of declaration of interest is to effectively identify, disclose and

manage any interest, be it actual, potential or perceived, in order to protect the

integrity of HTAIn and credibility of the recommendations made ensuring that, in
principle, recommendations made by the HTAIn are free from any bias and external

influences.

4.3. Scope of Declaration of Interest

The declaration of interest is applicable to all the HTAIn Members especially those

who are directly involved in conducting the study or appraising the study or
providing comments/ suggestions or approving the study at any stage such as

Technical Partners, Regional Resource Centres, Technical Appraisal Committee, Co-

opted members (Experts), Special invitees, Board and the Stakeholders. All of the

above members should declare if there is any conflict of interest in any particular HTA

study and if it is there, it should be managed appropriately.

4.4. Activities during declaration of interests

 A declaration of interest form should be prepared in a prescribed format and all

the Members of TP/RRC, TAC, Board and Stakeholders are asked to declare their

interests, if any.

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