Comités européens

France

• Faucher, Jacques, L'émergence du sujet éthique dans la création du Comité Consultatif National d'Éthique (France) et son premier avis, Lille : Atelier national de reproduction des thèses, 2003.

• Christophe Sauvat, Le Comité consultatif national d'éthique, préface Jean-Baptise Donnier, Aix-en-Provence, France : Presses universitaires d'Aix-Marseille, 1999.

Europe

• Beyleveld, De Deryck, Townend, David, Wright, Jessica, Research Ethics Committees, Data Protection And Medical Research in European Countries, Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 2005

This volume relates to the second stage of this project and is concerned with the setting up and role of research ethics committees. It assesses their legal responsibilities, especially with regard to data protection matters and contains reports from more than 20 European countries on these issues.

• Charignon, Raphaëlle, Sera, Ingrid, Dhommeaux, Jean, et Groupement d'intérêt public Mission de recherche Droit et justice, Le Comité international de bioéthique de l'Unesco et le Comité directeur pour la bioéthique du Conseil de l'Europe : Instances productrices d'éthique ? 1998

• Huriet, Claude (France), Riis, Povl (Danemark), Solbakk, Jan Hedge (Norvège), Nys, Herman (Belgique), Gorski, Andrzej (Pologne), Seligmann, Maxime (France), Gallacher, Tom et Haran, Sree (Royaume-Uni), Hovatta L., Outi Leena (Suède), Taupitz, Jochen (Allemagne), Gefenas, Eugenijus (Lituanie), Bauzon, Stéphane (Italie), Coleman Michel et Harpwood, Vivienne (Royaume-Uni), Zilgalvis, Pēteris (Conseil de l’Europe), La recherche biomédicale, 2004, Les Éditions du Conseil de l’Europe

• Mazzoni, Cosimo Marco, A Legal Framework for Bioethics, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 1998

A comparative analysis of the legislation in the field of bioethics in several Western countries, especially in European Union member states, shows that there is a profound difference both in legislative policies and in the ethical principles enshrined by the laws. Over the past few years bioethics, as a discipline, has attempted to elaborate individual and collective behavioural codes in several fields, but it has come up against enormous difficulties; it has not even been possible to reach a consensus between different countries on the general principles. An example of this is the recent Convention on Bioethics endorsed by the Council of Europe.

The aim of the essays contained in this book is to highlight the differences between existing regulations in several countries, and to stress how necessary it is to elaborate a legal framework that could be shared by the widest range of national legislations. For there is no denying that technological advances in the fields of both biology and medicine, as well as progress in surgical treatments, mean that jurists the world over are faced with a common scientific reality. The task of the jurist must therefore be to engage in a comparative analysis so as to overcome the differences in national legislations.

• Zilgalvis, Pēteris, chef de l'unité bioéthique à Bruxelles, "L'Europe doit défendre un noyau de valeurs éthiques communes", LE MONDE , Paris,18.05.2007.

Comités nationaux de bioéthique ou d'éthique des sciences