International Policy Documents

Ethics

Nuremberg Code (adopted by the US Tribunal on 19 July 1947)

Declaration of Helsinki: Recommendations Guiding Physicians in Biomedical Research Involving Subjects (1964;1975;1983;1989;1996; 2004)

International Ethical Guidelines for Biomedical Research Involving Human Subjects (2002)

International Code of Medical Ethics -Declaration of Geneva (1983)

The Oslo Declaration on Health, Dignity and Human Rights

Texts of the Council of Europe on Bioethical Matters

Declaration of Ottawa on the Right of the Child for Health Care (1998)

Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine (1997)

Resolution on Human Rights (1990-1995)

Declaration of Lisbon on the Rights of the Patient (1981;1995)

The Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action, adopted by the World Conference on Human Rights (1993)

Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Dignity of the Human Being with regard to the Application of Biology and Medicine: Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine

Statement on Access to Health Care (1988)

Clinical Research

Trials of War Criminals before the Nuremberg Military Tribunals under Control Council Law No. 10, Vol. 2, pp. 181-182.. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1949.

The Belmont Report – 1979

Human Participant Protection: Education for Research Teams (2002) 

International Conference on Harmonisation (ICH) Topics and Guidelines

International Conference on Harmonisation (ICH) US FDA Guidance Documents

Guidance for Clinical Trials - US FDA

ICMJE/WHO - ClinicalTrials.gov Cross Reference

Is This Clinical Trial Fully Registered? (May 2005)

Clinical Trial Registration (September 2004)

Clinical Trial Registration: A Statement from the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors

Report to the World Health Organization (WHO) on a Plan for International Registration of Controlled Trials (Draft 2004)

FDA Guidance for Industry Information Program on Clinical Trials for Serious or Life-Threatening Diseases and Conditions (CDER) & (CBER) March 2002

Good Clinical Practice in Clinical Trials - UK MRC Guidelines

Recommendation Concerning Medical Research on Human Beings (1990)

Social Issues & Health Care Standards

Future of Senior Citizens: Protection, Participation, Promotion (1999)

Statement on Medical Process Patents (1999)

Recommendation on Fighting Social Exclusion and Strengthening Social Cohesion in Europe (1998)

Statement on Professional Responsibility for Standards of Medical Care (1996)

Statement on Medical Malpractice (1992)

Statement of Policy on the Care of Patients with Severe Chronic Pain in Terminal Illness (1990)

Statement on Persistent Vegetative State (1989)

Twelve Principles of Provision of Health Care in Any National Health Care System (1983)

Declaration of Sydney (on death) (1968;1983)

International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (Article 7) (1966)

Privacy & Data Collection

Recommendation on the Protection Of Medical Data (1997)

Recommendation on Regulations for Automated Medical Data Banks (1981)

Recommendation on the Collection of Epidemiological Data on Primary Health Care (1989)

Statement on the Use of Computer in Medicine (1973;1983)

Professional Standards

Statement on the Working Relationship between Physicians and Pharmacists in Medicinal Therapy (1999)

Statement on Accountability, Responsibilities and Ethical Guidelines in the Practice of Telemedicine (1999)

Declaration of Hamburg on Support for Medical Doctors Refusing to Participate in, or to Condone, the Use of Torture or Other Forms of Cruel, Inhuman, or Degrading Treatment (1997)

China - Organ Procurement And Judicial Execution In China

Proposal for a United Nations Rapporteur on the Independence and Integrity of Health Professionals (1997)

Declaration on Physician Independence and Professional Freedom (1986)

Declaration of Madrid on Professional Autonomy and Self-Regulation (1987)

Declaration on Human Rights and Individual Freedom of Medical Practitioners (1985)

Resolution on Physician Participation in Capital Punishment (1981)

Declaration of Tokyo (guidelines for medical doctors on non-involvement in torture or other maltreatment of prisoners) (1975)

Recommendation on the Status of Scientific Researchers (1974)

Genetics & Genomics

Universal Declaration on the Human Genome and Human Rights

International Declaration on Human Genetic Data (UNESCO)

Declaration on the Human Genome Project (1992)

Recommendation on Genetic Testing and Screening for Health Care Purposes (1992)

Recommendation on Prenatal Genetic Screening, Prenatal Genetic Diagnosis and Associated Genetic Counseling (1990)

Statement on Genetic Counseling and Genetic Engineering (1987)

Stem Cells  & Cloning

Commission of the European Communities Report on Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research (2003)

Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Dignity of the Human Being with regard to the Application of Biology and Medicine, on the Prohibition of Cloning Human Beings (1998)

Resolution on Cloning (1997)

Vatican Reflections on Cloning (1997)

Ethical Guidelines for the Use of Human Embryonic or Fetal Tissue for Experimental and Clinical Neurotransplantation and Research (1994)

Statement on Fetal Tissue Transplantation (1989)

Vatican Instruction on Respect for Human Life in Its Origin and on the Dignity of Procreation (Donum Vitae) (1987)

Recommendation on the Use of Human Embryos and Fetuses for Diagnostic, Therapeutic, Scientific, Industrial and Commercial Purposes (1986)

Transplantation

EP & COE Directive on Setting Standards of Quality and Safety for the Donation, Procurement, Testing, Processing, Preservation, Storage and Distribution of Human Tissues and Cells (2003)

Recommendation on Trafficking in Organs in Europe (2003)

Recommendation on the management of organ transplant waiting lists and waiting times (2001)

Statement on Human Organ & Tissue Donation and Transplantation (2000)

Additional Protocol to the Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine, on Transplantation of Organs and Tissues of Human Origin

Recommendation on Liver Transplantation from Living Donors (1997)

Recommendation of the Committee of Ministers to Member States on Xenotransplantation (1997)

Resolution on Physicians’ Conduct Concerning Human Organ Transplantation (1994)

Recommendation of the Committee of Ministers to Member States on Human Tissue Banks (1994)

Epidemiology & Infectious Diseases

Recommendation on Screening as a Tool of Preventive Medicine (1994)

Recommendation on Early Pharmacological Intervention against HIV Infection (1994)

Statement on Issues Raised by the HIV Epidemic (1992)

International Guidelines for Ethical Review of Epidemiological Studies (1991)

Coordinated European Health Policy to Prevent the Spread of AIDS in Prisons (1988)

Statement on the Professional Responsibility of Physicians in Treating AIDS Patients (1988)

Biosafety

WHO Guidelines - Communicable Disease Surveillance & Response (CSR)

WHO - Laboratory Biosafety Manual

Guidelines for the safe transport of infectious substances and diagnostic specimens