The
Group is an
independent, pluralist and multidisciplinary body which advises the
European
Commission on ethical aspects of science and new technologies in
connection
with the preparation and implementation of Community legislation or
policies.
In December
1997 the European
Commission set up the European Group on Ethics to succeed the Group
of Advisors on the Ethical Implications of Biotechnology (GAEIB
1991-1997). During its first mandate the EGE
(1998-2000) provided Opinions on subjects as diverse as human
tissue
banking, human embryo research, personal health data in the information
society, doping in sport and human stem cell research. At a specific
request
of the President of the Commission, Romano Prodi, the Group also wrote
the Report on the Charter on Fundamental Rights related to
technological
innovation. The EGE finished its activities in 2015.
Mandate
2000-2005
On 24 April
2001 the Commission
has appointed the twelve Members for the period 2000-2005 and amended
the
EGE remit in order to strengthen the role of the Group. The secretariat
of the Group is an integral part of the Group of Policy Advisers.
1. Prof.
Göran HERMERÉN
(Sweden), President, Philosopher, Professor of Medical Ethics,
Faculty
of Medicine, Lund University.
2. Prof. Linda
NIELSEN (Denmark), Vice-President, Professor of Law, Rector of
the
University of Copenhagen.
3. Prof. Nicos C.
ALIVIZATOS
(Greece), Professor of Constitutional Law, University of Athens.
4. Prof. Rafael
CAPURRO
(Germany), Professor of Information Management and Information Ethics
at Hochschule der Medien, Stuttgart University of Applied
Sciences.
5. Prof. Inez DE
BEAUFORT
(The Netherlands), Professor of Health Care Ethics at the Medical
Faculty
of the Erasmus University, Rotterdam.
6. Prof. Yvon
ENGLERT (Belgium),
Head of Fertility Clinic, Free University of Brussels (ULB), Professor
of Medical Ethics and Deontology, ULB.
7. Prof. Catherine
LABRUSSE-RIOU
(France), Centre de recherche en droit privé, Université
de Paris.
8. Dr. Anne
McLAREN (United
Kingdom), Geneticist, Research Associate at Wellcome CRC Institute,
Cambridge.
9. Prof. Pere
PUIGDOMÈNECH
ROSELL (Spain), Research Professor at the Department for Molecular
Genetics,
Director of Institut de Biologia Molecular de Barcelona, CSIC
10. Prof. Stefano
RODOTA
(Italy), Professor of Civil Law, University of Rome, Chairman of the
Italian
Data Protection Authority, Chairman of the European Group of the Data
Protection
Authorities.
11. Prof.
Günter VIRT
(Austria), Professor of Theology, Institute of Catholic Moral Theology,
University of Vienna.
12. Prof. Peter
WHITTAKER
(Ireland), Biologist, Professor of Biology, Institute of Environment,
Philosophy
and Public Policy, University of Lancaster, Furness College.
On November
2005 the Commission
has appointed fifteen Members for the period 2005-2010 and amended
the
EGE remit.
1. Prof.
Emmanuel AGIUS, Faculty of Theology, University of Malta, Malta.
2. Prof. Diána BÁNÁTI, Director General of the
Central Food Research Institute, Hungary
3. Prof. Anne CAMBON-THOMSEN, Research Director, CNRS, Inserm U558,
Epidemiology and Public Health Analyses, France.
4. Prof. Rafael
CAPURRO, Professor of Information Management and Information Ethics
at Hochschule der Medien, Stuttgart, Germany.
5. Prof. Carlo CASINI, Member of the National Committee of Bioethics,
Italy (left EGE in 2007 as he became member of the European
Parliament); new member: Prof. Francesco Donato BUSNELLI, Italy.
6. Prof. Inez DE
BEAUFORT, Professor of Health Care Ethics at the Medical
Faculty
of the Erasmus University, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
7. Prof. Jozef
GLASA, Institute of Pharmacology and Clinical Pharmacology, Slovak
Medial University, Slovakia.
8. Prof. Hille HAKER, Moral Philosophy / Social Ethics, Goethe
University, Frankfurt a. M., Germany.
9. Prof.
Göran HERMERÉN, President,
Philosopher, Professor of Medical Ethics,
Faculty
of Medicine, Lund University, Sweden..
10. Prof. Julian
KINDERLERER, Sheffield Institute of Biotechnological Law and Ethics, UK.
11. Prof. Krzysztof MARCZEWSKI, Department of Ethics, Skubiszewski
Medical University of Lublin, Poland.
12. Prof. Paula MARTINHO DA SILVA, Vice-President,
President of the National Council of
Ethics for the Science of Life, Portugal.
13. Prof. Linda
NIELSEN, Professor of Law, Rector of
the
University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
14. Prof.
Pere
PUIGDOMÈNECH
ROSELL, Research Professor at the Department for Molecular
Genetics,
Director of Institut de Biologia Molecular de Barcelona, CSIC, Spain.
15. Prof.
Günter VIRT, Professor of Theology, Institute of Catholic Moral
Theology,
University of Vienna, Austria.
From
left to right:
(first row) Diána Bánáti, Carlo Casini, Emmanuel
Agius, José Manuel Barroso,
President of the European Commission, Krzysztof Marczewski,
Pere Puigdomenech Rosell, Linda Nielsen
(second row) Günter Virt, Ines de Beaufort,
Jozef Glaza, Anne
Cambon-Thomsen, Julian Kinderlerer, Paula Martinho da Silva, Rafael
Capurro.
From left to right:
- first row: Ines de Beaufort, Diána
Bánáti, Paula
Marinho da Silva, Göran
Herméren (President), Hille Haker, Anne
Cambon-Thomsen, Linda Nielsen, Krzysztof Marczewski.
- second row: Emmanuel Agius, Pere
Puigdomenech
Rosell, Jozef
Glaza, Rafael Capurro, Julian Kinderlerer, Günter Virt, Carlo
Casini.
Secretariat
EGE-Website
OPINIONS
2000 - 2005
Opinion n.
16
07/05/2002
Ethical aspects of
patenting
inventions involving human stem cells
Reference: Request
by the
European Commission
Rapporteurs: Linda
Nielsen
and Peter Whittaker.
Opinion n.
17
04/02/2003
Ethical aspects of
clinical
research in developing countries
Reference: Request
by the
European Commission
Rapporteurs: Inez
de Beaufort
and Yvon Englert.
Opinion n. 18
28/07/2003
Ethical aspects of
genetic
testing in the workplace
Reference:
Initiative of
the Group
Rapporteurs: Peter
Whittaker
and Nicos Alivizatos.
Opinion n. 19
30/04/2004
Ethical aspects of cord blood stem cells banks
Reference: Initiative of the Group
Rapporteurs: Pere Puigdomenech Rosell and Günter Virt.
Opinion n. 20
16/03/05
Ethical aspects of ICT implants in the human body
Reference: Initiative of the Group
Rapporteurs: Stefano Rodotà and Rafael Capurro.
OPINIONS
2005 - 2010
Opinion n. 21
24/01/07
Ethical Aspects of Nanomedicine
Reference: Request by the President of the European Commission
Rapporteurs: Göran Herméren, Krzysztof Marczewski, Linda
Nielsen.
Opinion n. 22
13/07/07
Recommendations on the Ethical Review of hESC FP7 Research Projects
Reference: Request by the President of the European Commission
Rapporteurs: Anne
Cambon-Thomsen, Hille Haker, Paula
Marinho da Silva.
Opinion n. 23
16/01/08
Ethical Aspects of Animal Cloning for Food Supply
Reference: Request by the President of the European Commission
Rapporteurs: Ines de
Beaufort, Pere
Puigdomenech
Rosell, Jozef
Glaza.
Opinion n. 24
17/12/08
Ethical Aspects of Modern Developments in Agricultural Technologies
Reference: Request by the President of the European Commission
Rapporteurs: Emmanuel Agius, Diána Bánáti, Julian
Kinderlerer.
Opinion n. 25
19/11/09
Ethics of Synthetic Biology
Reference: Request by the President of the European Commission
Rapporteurs: Rafael Capurro, Pere Puigdomenech Rossell, Julian
Kinderlerer, Paula Martinho da Silva.
STATEMENTS
Statement n.1
On Advertising
Genetic Tests
via the Internet (24/2/2003)
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