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Special Topics - Value added information products

The partners of EURETHNET are developing value-added information products on normative aspects of the life sciences. The section 'special topics' contains summaries of the scientific, legal and moral aspects of the most current issues in bioethics. Brief introductions in debates and legal documents will be given for Europe and different European countries. Those who want further information will also find links to relevant legal documents.

• Dealing with biometrical data (data protection)

• Genetically modified food

• Predictive genetic diagnosis

• Research involving humans

European law in bioethics

• European Union

• Council Regulation (EC) No 1139/98 of 26 May 1998 concerning the compulsory indication of the labelling of certain foodstuffs produced from genetically modified organisms of particulars other than those provided for in Directive 79/112/EEC
  [Languages: German, English]

• Directive 2001/18/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 12 March 2001 on the deliberate release into the environment of genetically modified organisms
  [Languages: German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Dutch, Danish, Finnish, Norwegian, Swedish, Portuguese]

• Directive 98/44/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 6 July 1998 on the legal protection of biotechnological inventions
  [Languages: German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Dutch, Danish, Finnish, Norwegian, Swedish, Portuguese]

• Europäische und nationale Regelungen für gentechnisch veränderte Organismen (GVO)
  [Language: German]

• Proposal of the Commission for a Regulation of the European Parliament and the Council concerning traceability of genetically modified organism and traceability of food and feed produced thereof

• Proposal of the Commission for a Regulation of the European Parliament and the Council on genetically modified food and feed
  [Languages: German, English]

• Regulation (EC) No 258/97 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 January 1997 concerning novel foods and novel food ingredients
  [Languages: German, English]




• Council of Europe

• Additional Protocol to the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Dignity of the Human Being with regard to the Application of Biology and Medicine, on the Prohibition of Cloning Human Beings

• Bioethics Convention

• Explanatory Report to the Bioethics Convention