Standing Committees To Members' area > Standing Committees are semi-permanent bodies concerned with prolonged issues of policy and advice in respect of science. Their services may vary from advising the General Assembly to taking a stance or issuing a declaration to producing a memorandum or brochure with the General Assembly's endorsement, or even a monograph or collected papers published by the Standing Committee under the auspices of ALLEA.

Standing Committees are instituted by the General Assembly when so proposed by the Steering Committee. The chair and members of a Standing Committee are member Academicians of a Member Academy, nominated and approved by the Steering Committee.

Current Standing Committees are: Intellectual Property Rights Science and Ethics