Property:1998 COE Cloning Convention

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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• 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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	Region	Population	1997 COE Biomedicine Convention	1998 COE Cloning Convention
Albania	Europe	3,600,523
Andorra	Europe	71,822
Armenia	Asia	3,229,900
Austria	Europe	8,316,487
Azerbaijan	Asia	8,653,000
Belgium	Europe	10,584,534
Bosnia and Herzegovina	Europe	3,981,239	RATIFIED
Bulgaria	Europe	7,933,000	RATIFIED	RATIFIED
Croatia	Europe	4,453,500	RATIFIED	RATIFIED
Cyprus	Asia	788,457	RATIFIED	RATIFIED
Czech Republic	Europe	10,381,130	RATIFIED	RATIFIED
Denmark	Europe	5,475,791	RATIFIED	signed
Estonia	Europe	1,340,602	RATIFIED	RATIFIED
Finland	Europe	5,308,208	signed	signed
France	Europe	64,473,140	signed	signed
Georgia	Asia	4,661,473	RATIFIED	RATIFIED
Germany	Europe	82,210,000
Greece	Europe	11,216,708	RATIFIED	RATIFIED
Hungary	Europe	10,053,000	RATIFIED	RATIFIED
Iceland	Europe	316,252	RATIFIED	RATIFIED
Ireland	Europe	6,000,000
Italy	Europe	59,448,163	signed	signed
Latvia	Europe	2,270,700	signed	signed
Liechtenstein	Europe	35,365
Lithuania	Europe	3,369,600	RATIFIED	RATIFIED
Luxembourg	Europe	480,222	signed	signed
Macedonia	Europe	2,038,514	signed	signed
Malta	Europe	402,000
Moldova	Europe	4,128,047	RATIFIED	RATIFIED
Monaco	Europe	32,671
Montenegro	Europe	684,736	signed
Netherlands	Europe	16,408,557	signed	signed
Norway	Europe	4,752,735	RATIFIED	signed
Poland	Europe	38,518,241	signed	signed
Portugal	Europe	10,848,692	RATIFIED	RATIFIED
Romania	Europe	22,246,862	RATIFIED	RATIFIED
Russia	Europe	142,008,838
San Marino	Europe	29,615	RATIFIED	signed
Serbia	Europe	10,150,265	signed
Slovakia	Europe	5,447,502	RATIFIED	RATIFIED
Slovenia	Europe	2,023,358	RATIFIED	RATIFIED
Spain	Europe	45,200,737	RATIFIED	RATIFIED
Sweden	Europe	9,182,927	signed	signed
Switzerland	Europe	7,591,400	signed	signed
Turkey	Asia	70,586,256	RATIFIED	signed
Ukraine	Europe	46,372,700	signed	signed
United Kingdom	Europe	60,587,300

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