The national Advisory committee of ethics ( CCNE ) or more exactly the national Advisory committee of ethics for the health and life sciences is organization of an ethical, scientific and philosophical reflection French having only one advisory role.

History

It was created by Décret of the February 23rd 1983, following the Assises main roads of Research of 1982 initiated by Jean-Pierre Chevènement and Philippe Lazar, then director of INSERM. Raising before of the law of July 29th, 1994, it from now on is registered in the law of August 6th, 2004. Its mission is “to deliver opinions on the ethical problems and the security questions raised by progress of knowledge in the fields of biology, medicine and health”.

The CCNE is consulted by Saisine various organizations or government institutions, but also by initiative. Composed of scientists, doctors, philosophers, lawyers, theologists of all confessions, and journalists, the CCNE is the only French and international committee depending on absolutely no Official Authority. It thus delivers its opinions in total independence.

Since 1984, it returned a hundred opinions accessible to all, and bearing on subjects as varied as the statute of the embryos, the prenatal diagnoses, the conditions of the donations of organs, obtaining and the use of the original cells, the right to the end-of-life, health in prison, or the predictions based on the detection of early disorders of the behavior in the child.

Current members

• Didier Sicard, current president of the CCNE since 1999
• Jean-Pierre Changeux, president of 1992 to 1999, honorary president.

Members named by the President of the Republic and pertaining to the principal philosophical and spiritual families:

• Sadek Béloucif
• Olivier Abel
• Olivier de Dinechin
• Haim Korsia
• Blandine Kriegel

19 personalities qualified selected because of their competence and their interest for the ethical problems: 15 personalities belonging to the research sector:

Some former members

• Etienne-Emile Baulieu, of 1996 to 2003
• Jean Bernard, first president of the CCNE of 1983 to 1992, and Honorary president then.
• Elisabeth Dufourcq, of 1993 to 1995
• Rene Frydman, of 1986 to 1990
• Albert Jacquard, of 1983 to 1988
• Axel Kahn, of 1992 to 2004
• Jean-François Mattei, of 1993 to 1997
• Lucien Sap, of 1983 to 2000

References

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