The European Data Protection Board's recent opinion on the interplay between the Clinical Trials Regulation and the General Data Protection Regulation provides some "welcome clarification" on the relationship and the legal basis under which trial data may be processed in compliance with the GDPR, but "a great deal more needs to be done" on this front, the pharmaceutical industry has said.
Ever since the GDPR came into force in May 2018, various EU member states have taken contradictory approaches to how...