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Section 4
Change control procedures frequently involve one or more participants
making a request for a change, setting out the details of it and the impact
it will have on the Research Plan, including cost and time. The other
participants then have a fixed period to respond. If they accept, then the
Research Plan is deemed to have been amended. If they accept that the
change is required, but specify that it has different impacts on the Research
Plan (whether in terms of cost or time), the initiator of the request has a set
time to decide if it wants to go forward, bearing in mind the other changes.
If the participants cannot agree upon changes to the Research Plan, then
the agreement can either say that the Research Plan does not change or the
matter could be resolved through the deadlock procedures (see Section 11
– End of the Contract).
