Report on the State of new Technologies

The National Council of Ethics for the Life Sciences (CNECV) approved at its 276th Meeting, held on April 21, the second Report of the Sixth Mandate on the State of the Application of New Technologies to Human Life 2022, dedicated to Disruptive Technologies in Health. The main objective of the analysis is to contribute to an ethical reflection on emerging technologies and their impact on citizens lives, thus recognising potential benefits, to be implemented, and negative effects, to be avoided.

The VI mandate of the National Council of Ethics for the Life Sciences (CNECV), which took office in July 2021, presents its first Report on the State of Application of New Technologies to Human Life, in compliance with the provisions of paragraph c) of Article 3.1 of Law No. 24/2009 of 29 May 2009, which established the CNECV as an advisory body functioning adjunct to the Portuguese Parliament. In addition to the formal fulfillment of legal provisions, the Report's main objective is to contribute to an ethical reflection that accompanies some of the most recent scientific-technological advances in their human implications