ICH E6(R3) guidelines call for a new approach to sponsor oversight

Published: 10-Apr-2025

The ICH E6(R3) guidelines, effective July 2025, mandate a proactive data-driven approach to sponsor oversight, focusing on maintaining essential records in digital clinical trials. Sponsors must modernise their record-keeping and oversight tools to ensure compliance and integrity

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The new ICH E6(R3) guidelines are set to reshape how sponsors manage essential records (documents and data) and their relationships with contract research organisations (CROs), reports Pinar Bérénice Bénet (pictured), Senior Director of Strategy, Clinical Operations, at Veeva. 

These changes emphasise a proactive, data-driven approach to running clinical trials and sponsor oversight, requiring biopharmaceutical companies to rethink their systems, processes, workflows and partnerships.

The global pharmaceutical industry has been navigating increasing trial complexity, globalisation and costs.

Against this backdrop, the International Council for Harmonisation’s Good Clinical Practice (GCP) guidelines, known as ICH GCP, are evolving to reflect the digital/outsourced nature of modern clinical trials. 

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