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16.4 Public Policy Requirements and Objectives

A complete listing of public policy requirements and objectives and their applicability to foreign grants is included in Public Policy Requirements, Objectives, and Other Appropriation Mandates in IIA. Several of the public policy requirements and objectives are highlighted below:

• Research Misconduct. The research misconduct Fabrication, falsification, or plagiarism in proposing, performing, or reviewing research, or in reporting research results. Fabrication is making up data or results and recording or reporting them. Falsification is manipulating research materials, equipment, or processes, or changing or omitting data or results such that research is not accurately represented in the research record. Plagiarism is the appropriation of another person's ideas, processes, results, or words without giving appropriate credit. Research misconduct does not include honest error or honest differences of opinion. requirements included in Public Policy Requirements, Objectives, and Other Appropriation Mandates-Research Misconduct apply to foreign grants.
• Animal Welfare. The animal welfare requirements contained in Public Policy Requirements, Objectives, and Other Appropriation Mandates-Animal Welfare apply to foreign grants, regardless of the requirements of the home country.
• Human Subjects. The human subjects requirements contained in Public Policy Requirements, Objectives, and Other Appropriation Mandates-Human Subjects Protections, including the requirement for an assurance pursuant to 45 CFR Part 46, apply to foreign grants and foreign consortium participants under domestic or foreign grants.
• Financial Conflict of Interest. The financial conflict of interest requirements contained in Public Policy Requirements, Objectives, and Other Appropriation Mandates- Financial Conflict of Interest apply to foreign grants.
• Inclusiveness in Research Design. Foreign grants are subject to the requirements for inclusion of women, minorities, and individuals across the lifespan in research design as specified in Public Policy Requirements, Objectives, and Other Appropriation Mandates-Inclusion of Children as Subjects in Clinical Research and Inclusion of Women and Minorities as Subjects in Clinical Research and Reporting Sex/Gender and Racial and Ethnic Participation.
• Civil Rights. The civil rights requirements specified in Public Policy Requirements, Objectives, and Other Appropriation Mandates-Civil Rights do not apply to foreign grants.
• Lobbying. The requirements of Public Policy Requirements, Objectives, and Other Appropriation Mandates-Lobbying Prohibition, including disclosure reporting, apply to foreign grants.
• Debt. Foreign applicants are required to provide a certification of nondelinquency on debts owed to the United States as specified in Public Policy Requirements, Objectives, and Other Appropriation Mandates-Nondelinquency on Federal Debt.
• Debarment and Suspension. Applicants/recipients that are foreign governments or governmental entities, public international organizations, or foreign-government-owned or -controlled (in whole or in part) entities are not subject to the debarment or suspension certification requirement or to debarment or suspension under 2 CFR Part 376. All other foreign organizations and international organizations are subject to these requirements. See Public Policy Requirements, Objectives, and Other Appropriation Mandates-Debarment and Suspension for additional information on this requirement.
• Drug-Free Workplace. Foreign applicants and recipients may be exempted from the drug-free workplace requirements of 2 CFR Part 182 based on a documented finding by the NIH awarding IC The NIH organizational component responsible for a particular grant program or set of activities. The terms "NIH IC," or "awarding IC" are used throughout this document to designate a point of contact for advice and interpretation of grant requirements and to establish the focal point for requesting necessary prior approvals or changes in the terms and conditions of award. that application of those requirements is inconsistent with U.S. international obligations or the laws and regulations of a foreign government. See Public Policy Requirements, Objectives, and Other Appropriation Mandates-Drug-Free Workplace for additional information on this requirement.