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Purpose
The GHTF Steering Committee is established under the Procedural Document, "Roles and Responsibilities (PDF) ". As stated in this document, "the role of the Steering Committee is to provide policy direction, strategic planning, and to assign and provide oversight of technical work initiatives". Please see the Strategic Direction document (PDF: 323kb, revised version posted December 19th, 2002) for more information. In addition, the Steering Committee will facilitate progress of work products between GHTF Conferences.
Representation on the Steering Committee is limited to up to 4 regulatory and 4 industry members from each founding geographic area - Europe, North America and the Asia-Pacific. The current Steering Committee membership list is outlined below.
The inaugural Steering Committee meeting was convened during early 2001 in Sydney, Australia and was hosted by the new GHTF Chair (as at January 2001), Ms Rita Maclachlan of Australia's Therapeutic Goods Administration.
Details
| Eleventh meeting | November 2006 | Brussels, Belgium |
| Tenth meeting | June 2006 | Lubeck, Germany |
| Ninth meeting | November 2005 | London, United Kingdom |
| Eighth meeting | May 2005 | Seville, Spain |
| Seventh meeting | June 2004 | Paris, France |
| Sixth Meeting | 5-7 November 2003 | San Francisco, USA |
| Fifth Meeting | 28-30 October 2002 | Tokyo, Japan |
| Fourth Meeting | 12-13 May 2002 | Singapore |
| Third Meeting: | 11-12 October 2001 | London, United Kingdom |
| Second Meeting: | 12-13 June 2001 | Brussels, Belgium |
| First Meeting: | 28 February - 2 March 2001 | Sydney, Australia |
Documents
Proposed Documents - (for review & comments)
Final Documents
Updated 14 April 2008
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