When must the Ethics Committee comment on the project?

When does the Ethics Committee have to comment on a project?

The opinion of the applicant's ethics committee must be submitted whenever the project involves the provision of health care, research with human subjects, and also in the case of research with questionnaire survey methodology and qualitative research with persons affected by or at risk of disease in accordance with the International Ethics Committee for Biomedical Research with Human Participants CIOMS/WHO, 2002.