Applying for research funding

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The FSA, together with Defra, BBSRC (the Biotechnology & Biological Sciences Research Council) & NERC (the Natural Environment Research Council) has developed this Code of Practice to help ensure that science & evidence commissioned by the Agency is consistently of a high & reliable quality.

The Code was launched in May 2003 & took effect from 1 June 2004. The Agency & Defra commissioned UKAS (the United Kingdom Accreditation Service) in 2006 to audit a sample of FSA / Defra science & evidence projects against the provisions of the Code. The generic findings from the two year UKAS audit programme were disseminated amongst QA managers & other interested parties at a joint FSA / Defra workshop in Reading in March 2009.

The Code has been subsequently revised by FSA & Defra as a result of both the audit findings & workshop outputs, with input from BBSRC, NERC & the UK Devolved Administrations.

The following link will take you to the latest version of the Code (as hosted on the Defra website):

http://www.defra.gov.uk/publications/2012/03/20/pb13725-research-code-practice/