ABN Movement Disorders SIG
Declaration of Sponsorship Compliance
Annual Meeting - Applies to all supporting companies
This web page sets out how the Movement Disorder Special Interest Group (MD SIG) declares industry support at its Annual Meeting. It applies identically to every supporting company. It is issued with our sponsorship packages so that companies can confirm at the point of booking that our arrangements meet their obligations under the ABPI Code of Practice.
The Movement Disorder Special Interest Group (MD SIG) is not a signatory to the ABPI Code. We provide the arrangements below because they are good practice, because they support the integrity of our annual programme, and because our supporting companies carry obligations under Clause 5.6 of the Code which they cannot discharge without us.
1: The MD Sig sponsorship declaration
The following statement is our standard declaration of industry support. It appears in the channels as listed in section 2.
The MD Sig is grateful for the generous support of the companies listed. Those companies have had no editorial input into or control over the annual programme. Support is used towards commercial exhibition space and event logistics. Unless specifically stated in the programme, funding from supporting companies has not been used for the purposes of entertainment.
The declaration is always presented above the logos of supporting companies, never below them, and companies are identified individually by name / logo.
Individual company-specific declarations can only be accommodated in specific areas, and must be within the parameters set by the organisers* - see section 2 below.
2: Where the declaration appears
Channel
Where it appears
Who supplies it
Meeting Website Programme page
Sponsorship declaration directly beneath the page heading, above the agenda, linking to the list of supporting companies
MD Sig
Meeting Website Sponsor's page
Sponsorship declaration at the top of the page, directly beneath the heading, above a logo block showing all supporting companies
MD Sig and Sponsors
Session holding slides
MD Sig produced slide carrying the declaration and all supporting company logos, shown at the start of day and after coffee breaks.
MD Sig and Sponsors
3: Principles behind these arrangements
Equal Treatment
All supporting companies appear together, under one declaration, in every channel. No company receives placement, prominence or size advantage over another, irrespective of the value of its support.
Accurate description of involvement
The declaration must reflect what a company actually did. For this reason we do not attribute meeting-wide sponsorship to individual sessions, and we do not present a single company's branding in a way that implies the meeting is that company's event. Overstating a company's role is as much a failure of accurate declaration as understating it.
Independence of the annual meeting
Sponsor branding is not placed within the slides of independent speakers. Declarations are delivered on MD Sig-produced holding slides at session level, run by our own audio-visual team. This ensures delegates see the declaration repeatedly throughout each day without industry material being embedded in the presentations of independent academic faculty.
4: Requests beyond this standard
We keep this standard under review and welcome comment on it. Where a company believes a specific provision of the ABPI Code requires arrangements beyond those set out here, we ask that the relevant clause is identified so that we can consider it properly and, if appropriate, apply the change for all supporting companies.
Changes are not made for individual companies. Where we adopt a change, it becomes part of this standard and applies to everyone.
Queries on this standard: MDSig@Phproductionservices.co.uk
Issued August 2026. Version 1.0.
