Recommendation 2/CNECV/2022 on the state of preparedness in public health emergencies
Deliberações
Given the predictability of future health emergencies, the CNECV has decided, on its own initiative, to reflect on the state of health preparedness in public health emergencies, considering that the response of a health system that claims to be ethically...
Opinion 117/CNECV/2023 on ethical requirements for public interest decision making in Life Sciences (Executive Summary)
Deliberações
The decision-making processes of public interest, at both governmental and institutional level, are particularly demanding in the current context of pluralistic and egalitarian societies, deserving a thoughtful reflection. In contemporary democratic...
Opinion 123/CNECV/2023 on Off-Label use of medicines - Ethical implications
Deliberações
The off-label use of medicinal products is a common therapeutic practice in any healthcare system. The CNECV’s opinion provides an analysis of the technical reasons justifying the off-label use of medicinal products, as well as the ethical and legal...
Opinion 124/CNECV/2023 on the protection of intimacy within the school context (Executive Summary)
Deliberações
The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Constitutional Affairs, Rights, Freedoms and Guarantees has sent the National Council of Ethics for the Life Sciences (CNECV) a request for an opinion on the assessment, in ethical terms, of Draft Bill no....
Opinion 125/CNECV/2023 concerning sexual convertion therapies (Executive Summary)
Deliberações
The Committee for Constitutional Affairs, Rights, Freedoms and Guarantees of the Portuguese Parliament addressed to the CNECV a request for an opinion on the ethical aspects of Draft Bill no. 699/XV/1 (PAN), which provides for the criminalization of...
REPORT ON THE STATE OF APPLICATION OF NEW TECHNOLOGIES TO HUMAN LIFE 2021
Deliberações
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 Law No. 24/2009 of 29 May 2009,...
REPORT ON THE STATE OF APPLICATION OF NEW TECHNOLOGIES TO HUMAN LIFE 2022 - Genome Editing and Artificial intelligence
Deliberações
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...
Plenary Meetings
Atividades
Next meetings:15th December (Friday) - Lisbon Calendar 202419th January (Friday) - Lisbon16 February (Friday) - Proposal to travel 22nd March (Friday) - Lisbon12 April (Friday) - Proposed trip17 May (Friday) - Lisbon21 June (Friday) - Lisbon19 July...
Steering Commitee Meetings
Atividades
2024 Calendar (Videoconference)11 January (Thursday)08 February (Thursday)14 March (Thursday)04 April (Thursday)09 May (Thursday)12 June (Wednesday)11 July (Thursday)(August: on break)12 September (Thursday)10 October (Thursday)14 November...
CNECV's Law
Instrumentos de Gestão
Law 24/ 2009, of 29th May(In force since 1st June 2009) Juridical Regime of the National Ethics Council for the Life Sciences The General Assembly decrees the following, under the terms of paragraph c) of article 161 of the Constitution: Article...
"ONE HEALTH"
Grupos de Trabalho
The VI Mandate of the CNECV formed its first working group in December 2021, dedicated to the theme "One Health – One single Health". The working group is composed of Board Member Sandra Horta e Silva, Board Member João Ramalho-Santos and Board Member...
Ethics, Artificial Intelligence and Life Sciences.
Grupos de Trabalho
The VI Mandate of the CNECV constituted its second working group in January 2022: Ethics, Artificial Intelligence and Life Sciences.The working group includes the Counselors Rui Nunes, Inês Godinho, Miguel Ricou and the President, Maria do Céu Patrão...