ECCO Code of Conduct
ECCO endorses the governance practices of its umbrella organisations, UEG and Biomedical Alliance in Europe, and its Code of Conduct for Healthcare Professionals and Scientific Organizations, which maintains that:
“As health care and knowledge are highly valuable public benefits, it is of the utmost importance that they are delivered in an independent way. It follows that governance, organisation, and activities are independent from any interest – such as governmental, commercial or personal interests – but those of the medical specialty and its practitioners. Assuring this necessitates transparency to allow the assessment of independence; and, when assessed, accountability to the members, to the patients and to society.” i
The ECCO Code of Conduct complements these principles, with its own approach to and implementation of our shared core values: Quality, Integrity, and Transparency.