09.7 Does the Accreditation Council also approve the composition of the peer review panel?

It is not one of the Accreditation Council’s tasks to approve the composition of the peer review panel in advance. The composition is the responsibility of the evaluating Agencies, which are bound by the guidelines of the HRK (cf. explanatory memorandum to § 25 para. 4 MRVO).

If bundled applications contain information on the intended size and composition of the peer review panel, applicants are informed that, in the event of an obviously inadequate composition of a peer review panel, care must be taken to ensure that all subjects and sub-disciplines are adequately considered in the peer review panel.

Should the Accreditation Council subsequently find fault with a procedure as a result of an evidently inappropriate composition of the peer review panel, the applicant is given the opportunity to rectify the situation, for example through a follow-up assessment by an additional expert.