Disclosure for SGCs

SGC employees should be required to regularly disclose their financial assets, other sources of income, and business interests (including board memberships), and declare any past sources of income and business associations that could compromise their SGC position/perspective or influence their future decisions.

Applications for funding should disclose any associations, both current and former, between the applicants and the SGC and its members.

The SGC would also be interested in whether the researcher had any financial interest in the product they may be researching They would need to ensure the researcher declares any such interest.