No. EBAC, as other major accrediting bodies, accepts funding of accredited continuing education (CE) by commercial supporters. Financial support has to be made transparent to participants under strictly defined conditions (please refer to EBAC document “EBAC Rules for Commercial Support”) to avoid potential promotional side effects. Further to this commercial supporters cannot have any role in accredited CE, and this definitely includes management of participants and participations (please refer to the 2020 International Academy for CPD Accreditation (IACPDA) “Standards for Substantive Equivalency between CPD/CME Accreditation Systems“, which state in Standard 2.1 I …. “that commercial interests have no influence, control, or involvement with … any other aspect of the provision or evaluation of accredited education“). However, giving commercial supporters the opportunity to interact with participants in accredited live in person meetings has for long been accepted by accrediting bodies under certain conditions. These include strict separation of education and promotion, e.g. distribution of promotional material only outside of the room, in which education takes place, and personal contact between representatives of commercial supporters and participants only during the breaks, often restricted to specially designated exhibition areas, and at the sole discretion of participants, deciding onsite on whom to meet. To summarize, the current procedure for live in-person meetings has been characterized by that the provider has never played an active role in establishing contacts between individual participants and industry reps beyond offering a general opportunity to meet (e.g. exhibition area) contacts between participants and commercial entities have never occurred prior or during, but only after the CE activity, and the direction of action has always been from participant to commercial funder and not vice versa. Thus, this procedure has complied with requirements accrediting bodies have set forth as well as the EU General Data Protection Regulation. In analogy to the procedures applied in live in-person CE EBAC has defined for online education: Funding by commercial entities has to be made transparent according to the rules outlined in the document “EBAC Rules for Commercial Support” EBAC considers as end of an educational activity delivered online when participants have completed the online EBAC evaluation form Following completion of the online EBAC evaluation form, providers may display contact data of commercial supporters to facilitate contacts between participants and funders at the discretion of participants.