The Dutch 2002 embryos act and the convention on human rights and biomedicine: Some issues

European Journal of Health Law

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 139-151

  Te Braake, Trees A M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION; BIOMEDICINE; CELL NUCLEUS TRANSPLANTATION; EMBRYO RESEARCH; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; FETUS; GAMETE; GOVERNMENT; HUMAN CLONING; HUMAN GENOME; HUMAN RIGHTS; LAW; NETHERLANDS; REVIEW; SEX DETERMINATION;

BIOMEDICAL AND BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; GENETICS AND REPRODUCTION; LEGAL APPROACH;

BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; CLONING, ORGANISM; EMBRYO; EMBRYO RESEARCH; GENOME, HUMAN; GERM CELLS; HUMAN RIGHTS; HUMANS; NETHERLANDS; SEX PRESELECTION; THERAPEUTIC HUMAN EXPERIMENTATION;

EID: 3442889655     PISSN: 09290273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/1571809041457413     Document Type: Review

References (24)

1. Wet van 20 juni 2002, houdende regels inzake handelingen met geslachtscellen en embryo's (Embryowet), Staatsblad (Bulletin of Acts and Decrees) 2002, 338.
2. Kamerstukken II 2000/01, nr 3, p. 5.
3. Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Dignity of the Human Being with regard to the Application of Biology and Medicine: Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine, Oviedo, 4.IV. 1997 (ETS - no. 164).
4. Kamerstukken II 2003/04, 29 200 XVI, nr. 195.
5. This so-called 'institution's protocol' is not to be confused with the 'research protocol' as meant in Article 3.
6. In the Embryos Act the legislature has allotted some tasks to review committees that already exist pursuant to the Medical Research (on Human Subjects) Act. According to this Act several so-called 'peripheral' review committees are to judge human research protocols. One Central Committee has been established for the review of some specific human research protocols and to function as an appeal committee. According to the Embryos Act this Central Committee is now to review also embryo research protocols (Article 3), whereas the peripheral committee in question should give it's opinion on the 'general' institution's protocol relating to the use of gametes and embryos (Article 2).
7. The protection of the human embryo in vitro; report by the Working Party on the protection of the human embryo and fetus. Strasbourg, 19 June 2003 (CDBI-CO-GT3 (2003) 13. (http://www.coe.int/Bioethics)
8. 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, Paris, 12.I.1998 (ETS no. 168).
9. Explanatory report to the Convention, 93-94.
10. Explanatory report to the Convention, 91.
11. See D.S. Rubenstein et al., 'Germ-line therapy to cure mitochondrial disease: Protocol and ethics of in vitro ovum nuclear transplantation', Cambridge quarterly of health care ethics, 1995, pp. 316-339.
12. Directive 2001/20/EC relating to the implementation of good clinical practice in the conduct of clinical trials on medicinal products for human use.
13. J. Gunning, 'Article 18 of the European Biomedicine Convention: What impact on assisted reproduction?', European Journal of Health Law, 1999, pp. 165-169 (168).
14. Kamerstukken II 2002/03, 28 639, nr. 19, p. 12. - Kamerstukken II 2003/04, 29 200 XVI, nr. 195.
15. Kamerstukken II 2002/03, 28 639, nr. 19, p. 12. - Kamerstukken II 2003/04, 29 200 XVI, nr. 195.
16. Explanatory report to the Additional protocol, 5-6.
17. For, even if ova from different donors are used, these would share the same nuclear gene set.
18. Kamerstukken II 2000/01, 27 423, nr 7, p. 5.
19. See I. Kriari-Catranis, 'Embryo research and human rights in Europe', European Journal of Health Law 1997, pp. 43-67, and J. Gunning, 'Article 18 of the European Biomedicine Convention: What impact on assisted reproduction?', European Journal of Health Law, 1999, pp. 165-169.
20. See I. Kriari-Catranis, 'Embryo research and human rights in Europe', European Journal of Health Law 1997, pp. 43-67, and J. Gunning, 'Article 18 of the European Biomedicine Convention: What impact on assisted reproduction?', European Journal of Health Law, 1999, pp. 165-169.
21. See also H.D.C. Roscam Abbing, 'The Convention on human rights and biomedicine: an appraisal of the Council of Europe convention', EJHL 1998, pp. 377-387 (383-384).
22. In the same sense H.D.C. Roscam Abbing, 'The Convention on human rights and biomedicine: an appraisal of the Council of Europe convention', European Journal of Health Law, 1998, pp. 377-387 (383-384), and J. Gunning, 'Article 18 of the European Biomedicine Convention: What impact on assisted reproduction?', European Journal of Health Law, 1999, pp. 165-169 (169).
23. In the same sense H.D.C. Roscam Abbing, 'The Convention on human rights and biomedicine: an appraisal of the Council of Europe convention', European Journal of Health Law, 1998, pp. 377-387 (383-384), and J. Gunning, 'Article 18 of the European Biomedicine Convention: What impact on assisted reproduction?', European Journal of Health Law, 1999, pp. 165-169 (169).
24. H.D.C. Roscam Abbing, 'The Convention on human rights and biomedicine: an appraisal of the Council of Europe convention', European Journal of Health Law, 1998, pp. 377-387 (379).