Publication: Magyar Közlöny
Issue: MK-2002-29 (Year: 2002, Number: 29)
Era: 1990-2004
Section: 
Paragraph Index: 138

3. § A Jegyzõkönyv angol nyelvû szövege és annak hivatalos magyar nyelvû fordítása a következõ: „Additional Protocol to the 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 The member States of the Council of Europe, the other States and the European Community Signatories to this Additional Protocol to the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Dignity of the Human Being with regard to the Application of Biology and Medicine, noting scientific developments in the field of mammal cloning, particularly through embryo splitting and nuclear transfer, mindful of the progress that some cloning techniques themselves may bring to scientific knowledge and its medical application, considering that the cloning of human beings may become a technical possibility, having noted that embryo splitting may occur naturally and sometimes result in the birth of genetically identical twins, considering however that the instrumentalisation of human beings through the deliberate creation of genetically identical human beings is contrary to human dignity and thus constitutes a misuse of biology and medicine, considering also the serious difficulties of a medical, psychological and social nature that such a deliberate biomedical practice might imply for all the individuals involved, considering the purpose of the Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine, in particular the principle mentioned in Article 1 aiming to protect the dignity and identity of all human beings, have agreed as follows: Article 1

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