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Eidgenössische Ethikkommission für die Biotechnologie im Ausserhumanbereich EKAH
Federal Ethics Committee on Non-Human Biotechnology ECNH
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News
Report of Activities 2004-2007 - The ECNH reports to the Federal Council periodically on its activities.
The dignity of living beings with regard to plants - Moral consideration of plants for their own sake - ECNH-Report published in April 2008. The Federal Constitution demands to take the dignity of living beings into consideration. The term "living beings" encompasses animals, plants and other organisms. At legislative level, the Gene Technology Act limits the scope of the term to animals and plants. The ECNH was asked by the Federal Office for the Environment to make suggestions as to how this notion of dignity of living beings can be fleshed out from an ethical perspective in relation to plants.
About us
The Federal Ethics Committee on Non-Human Biotechnology ECNH was appointed by the Federal Council to advise the authorities from an ethical perspective, as an independent expert committee, in the field of non-human biotechnology and gene technology.
