Table 1.

Details required in SOP of IEC

Details required in the SOP of IEC[4]
1.	Membership requirements of the ethics committee
2.	The terms of reference, roles, and responsibilities of the committee members
3.	Conditions of appointment of the IEC members and quorum requirements
4.	Procedure for resignation, replacement, or removal of members
5.	The standard operating procedures to be followed by the committee in general
6.	Standard operating procedures to be followed by the committee for vulnerable populations
7.	Policy regarding training for new and existing committee members, along with standard operating procedures
8.	Policy to monitor or prevent the conflict of interest along with standard operating procedures

For designing the SOP, one may look into the National Ethical Guidelines for Biomedical and Health Research involving Human Participants, ICMR, 2017[5]