How does the SAB Staff Office evaluate ethics considerations for experts being considered for the SAB, CASAC, and Council and SAB standing committees?
The SAB Staff Office requires experts serving on the SAB, CASAC, and Council and SAB standing committees to submit Confidential Financial Disclosure forms annually and to take ethics training (see below) once they become Special Government Employees. Because of the wide variety of advisory activity that chartered federal advisory committees and SAB standing committees may address, the SAB Staff Office also requires members to update their Confidential Financial Disclosure forms and to respond to questions about appearance of lack of impartiality every time they address a new advisory activity. Ethics considerations and appearance of lack of impartiality are especially important because of legal requirements and the importance of providing impartial advice. Ethics information is considered whenever members of a standing committee on chartered committee take up a new advisory activity.
