Opinion 121/CNECV/2023 on the Draft Bill no. 24/XV/1 - Approves the Mental Health Law and amends the related legislation (Executive Summary)
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The National Ethics Council for Life Sciences (CNECV) unanimously approved, on 23 March, during its 275th Plenary Meeting, Opinion 121/CNECV/2023 on the Draft Bill no. 24/XV/1 - Approves the Mental Health Law and amends the related legislation. The CNECV...
Recommendation 3/CNECV/2022 on the Informed Consent involving minors: ethical and legal requirements
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Informed Consent involving minors has often raised questions among healthcare professionals, as well as between young people and their parents. The subject was recently under social debate in Portugal, at the time of the initiative of voluntary...
Position Statement 7 | Ethical deliberation on SARS-COV-2 vaccination in children aged 5 to 11 years
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The CNECV adopted on its own initiative, on 20 December 2021, a Position Statement on the ethical considerations regarding the vaccination against SARS-CoV-2 of children between 5 and 11 years of age. Public health measures have a strong ethical...
27th Forum of the National Ethics and Bioethics Councils
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Emerging challenges in the fields of science, technology and medicine are ever expanding, often in unexpected directions and offering the possibility of profound and lasting changes. Ethics, as a partner of progress, takes on even greater relevance in...
CNECV International Seminar - "One Health, One Ethics", 3 November 2023
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The One Health concept recognises the need to approach health policies and practices from a perspective of interdependence and compromise between people, animals, and the environment. From this perspective, ethical questions emerge about the goodness of...
International Conference - Artificial Intelligence in Life Sciences: ethical paths
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The National Council of Ethics for the Life Sciences (CNECV) and the Luso-American Development Foundation (FLAD) held an International Conference entitled "Artificial Intelligence in Life Sciences: ethical paths" on September 21, 2023, at the FLAD...
13th Global Summit of National Ethics Commissions - Lisbon, September 2022
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The Global Summit of National Ethics Committees - Global Summit brings together delegates from over ninety countries and representatives of the most relevant supranational organisations in the areas of health and bioethics, such as the World Health...
Recommendation 2/CNECV/2022 on the state of preparedness in public health emergencies
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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)
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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
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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)
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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)
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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...