Speakers have to disclose existing financial arrangements with any commercial company contributing to the CME /CPD event.
The disclosure form has to be signed by speakers and organizing/scientific committee members, be archived by the provider, and communicated to EORNA ACE (the form can be downloaded here).
There is an obligation on both the organizers (faculty) and speakers to openly declare any conflict of interest or support to participants. Whilst acknowledging concerns that have arisen with regard to bias in support of events by commercial companies, EORNA ACE believes that a balanced approach, based on support by an unrestricted educational grant and open declaration of any conflict of interest, can provide and promote mutual co-operation for the benefit of nurses and their patients.

The accredited CME / CPD event/activity should be clearly distinguished from commercially organized sessions, known as “satellite sessions”.
These and accompanying social events should not compete with, nor take precedence over, the accredited CME / CPD sessions.
Satellite symposia which form part of a congress which has already been approved for CME / CPD, can not obtain separate approval for extra CME / CPD credits by EORNA ACE. They are considered part of the whole meeting programme and are therefore covered by the congress CME / CPD. There is no specific allocation of hours or credits to them.