Council of Europe

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The Council of Europe is an international organization of 47 member countries working to foster democracy and human rights. The Council maintains a Bioethics Division within its Legal Affairs field, guided by a Steering Committee on Bioethics.

The Council’s Convention on Biomedicine and Human Rights was opened for signatures in 1997 and went into force in 1998. It explicitly prohibits inheritable genetic modification, somatic genetic modification for enhancement purposes, social sex selection, and the creation of human embryos solely for research purposes.

Human reproductive cloning was banned by an Additional Protocol on the Prohibition of Cloning Human Beings. It was opened for signatures in 1998 and went into force that same year.

Offsite links

• The Council of Europe
• Council of Europe Bioethics Division
• Convention on Biomedicine and Human Rights
• Additional Protocol on the Cloning of Human Beings

Table

The Table shows the status of the 1997 Biomedicine Convention and the 1998 Additional Protocol on Human Cloning for each member state.

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Key

• RATIFIED: This country has ratified this measure, and thus agrees to abide by its provisions.
• signed: This country has signed this measure, indicating an intent to ratify it.
• blank cell: This country has neither signed nor ratified this measure.

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