Common use of Joint Development Committee Membership Clause in Contracts

Joint Development Committee Membership. Each Party shall initially appoint [***] representatives to the JDC, each of whom will be an officer or employee of such Party and will have sufficient seniority within the applicable Party to make decisions arising within the scope of the JDC’s responsibilities and will have appropriate expertise in clinical development or regulatory matters. The JDC may change its size from [***] by [***] of its members. Each Party may replace its JDC representatives at any time upon written notice to the other Party. The JDC may invite non-members (including consultants and advisors of a Party) who are under an obligation of confidentiality consistent with this Agreement to participate in the discussions and meetings of the JDC, provided that such participants shall have no voting authority at the JDC. The JDC shall have a chairperson. Each Party shall have the right, on an [***] basis, to select from among its JDC representatives a [***]. Such Party shall have the right during such [***]. [***]. The role of the chairperson shall be to convene and preside at meetings of the JDC, to prepare agendas (with due input from the other Party’s representatives), circulate agendas and to ensure the preparation of meeting minutes, but the chairperson shall have no additional powers or rights beyond those held by the other JDC representatives.