Ethics committees

National bioethics committees in Europe

Albanien
Albanian Committee on Bioethics
Austria
The Bioethics Commission
Belgium
Comité consultatif de Bioéthique de Belgique (Belgian Advisory Committee on Bioethics)
Cyprus
Cyprus National Bioethics Committee
Czech Republic
Centralni Eticka Komise Pri Ministerstvu Zdravotnictvi Ceske Republiky (Central Ethics Committee of the Ministry of Health of the Czech Republic)
Bioeticka Komise Rada Vlady Ceské Republiky pro Vyzkum a Vyvoj, BIOETICKA KOMISE RVV (Bioethical Commission Associated to the Research and Development Council of the Government of the Czech Republic)
Denmark
Danish Council of Ethics
Den Centrale Videnskabsetiske Komité, CVK (The Danish Central Scientific Ethical Committee)
Estonia
Eesti Bioeetika Noukogu, EBN (Estonian Council on Bioethics)
Finland
Tutkimuseettinen Neuvottelukunta, TENK (National Advisory Board on Research Ethics)
National Advisory Board on Health Care Ethics, ETENE
National Advisory Board for Biotechnology, BTNK
Board for Gene Technology
France
Comité Consultatif National d'Ethique pour les sciences de la vie et de la santé, CCNE (National Consultative Ethics Committee for Health and Life Science)
Georgia
National Bioethics Council of Georgia, NBCG
Greece
Hellenic National Bioethics Commission
Hungary
Egészségügyi Tudományos Tanács Tudományos és Kutatásetikai Bizottsága, ETT TUKEB (Scientific and Research Ethics Committee of the Medical Research Council)
Iceland
National Bioethics Committee of Iceland, VSN
Ireland
Irish Council for Bioethics
Italy
Comitato Nazionale Italiano per la Bioetica, CNB (The National Bioethics Committee)
Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, CNR (Bioethics Committee)
Commissione di Bioetica
Lithuania
Lietuvos bioetikos komitetas, LBEK (Lithuanian Bioethics Committee)
Luxembourg
Commission Consultative Nationale d'Ethique pour les Sciences de la Vie et de la Santé, C.N.E.
Malta
Bioethics Consultative Committee
Netherlands
Gezondheidsraad    (Health Council of the Netherlands)
Norway
The National Committee for Medical Research Ethics, NEM
The National Committee for Research Ethics in the Social Sciences and the Humanities, NESH
The National Committee for Research Ethics in Science and Technology, NENT
Norvegian Biotechnology Advisory Board
Portugal
Conselho Nacional de Etica para as Ciencias da Vida (National Ethics Council for life sciences)
Russian Federation
Russian National Committee on Bioethics
Slovakia
Central Ethic Committee of the Ministry of health
Slovenia
National Medical Ethics Committee, NMEC
Sweden
Statens medicinsk-etiska råd, SMER (Swedish National Council on Medical Ethics)
Swedish Research Council
Switzerland
Commission nationale d'ethique pour la médecine humaine, CNE (Swiss National Advisory Commission on Biomedical Ethics)
Commission fédérale d'éthique dans la biotechnologie non-humain CENH (Eidgenössische Ethikkommission für die Biotechnologie im Ausserhumanbereich EKAH,
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Nuffield Council on Bioethics
Human Genetics Commission, HGC
Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority, HFEA
Central Office for Research Ethics Committees, COREC

 

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Ethics Committees outside Europe

Algeria
Conseil National de l'Éthique des Sciences de la Santé
Argentina
Argentina National Bioethics Advisory Commission
Australia
Australian Health Ethics Committee, AHEC
Benin
Comité d'éthique de la Faculté des Sciences de Cotonou
Bolivia
Comité Impulsor de Etica y Bioética (National Ethics and Bioethics Steering Committee)
Botswana
Ministry of Health Research and Development Committee
Brazil
Comissão Nacional de Ética em Pesquisa, Conep
Burkina Faso
Comité national d'éthique pour la recherche en santé, CNERS
Canada
Canadian Biotechnology Advisory Committee,
CBAC/Comité Consultatif Canadien de la Biotechnologie, CCCB
Commission de l'Éthique de la Science et de la Technologie, CEST
Conseil National d'Éthique en Recherche chez l'Humain, CNERH
China
Department of Research on Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications, Chinese National Human Genome
Beijing Genomics Institute (BGI)
Cote d'Ivoire
Comité Consultatif National de Bioéthique de la République de Côte d'Ivoire
Cuba
Comité Nacional Cubano de Bioética
Dominican Republic
Comisión Nacional de Bioética
Ecuador
Comité Nacional de Bioética del Ecuador
Egypt
Egyptian National Committee for Bioethics, EGY/NCB
Ethiopia
National Ethical Clearance Committee, NECC
Gambia
Gambia Government/MRC Ethics Committee
India
Council of Medical Research, ICMR
Iran
Committee of Bioethics, National Committee for Ethics in Science and Technology
Israel
Bioethics Advisory Committee of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities
Japan
Bioethics Committee. Council for Science and Technology
Japanisches Forschungsministerium Für Bioethik
Rat für Wissenschaft und Technologie, Komitee für Bioethik
Korea
Korean Bioethics Association, KBA
Lebanon
Comité Consultatif National Libanais d'Éthique pour les Sciences de la Vie et de la Santé
Conseil National de la Recherche Scientifique, CNRS
Mauritius
National Ethics Committee of Mauritius
Mexico
Comisión Nacional de Bioética, CNB
Nepal
Nepal Health Research Council
New Zealand
National Ethics Committee on Assisted Human Reproduction, NECAHR
Toi te Taiao: the Bioethics Council
Nigeria
National Ethics Committee of Nigeria
Philippines
National Ethics Committee
National Health Research Ethics Committee
Saudi Arabia
National Committee for Medical and Bio-ethics, Kin Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology, NCEB
Senegal
Conseil national de recherche en santé, CNRS
Comité National d' Éthique
Singapore
Bioethics Advisory Committee, BAC
Syria
Comité national de bioéthique syrien
Taiwan
National Science Council, NSC
Tansania
National Ethics Review Committee, NIMR
Thailand
Science in Thai Culture Project
Tunisia
Comité National d'Éthique Médicale
Uganda
National Bioethics Committee of Uganda
United States of America
President's Council on Bioethics, PCBE
National Bioethics Advisory Commission, NBAC (1996-2001)
Uruguay
Comisión Nacional de Bioética Humana