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A European Union 6th Framework funded project with €2.5 million funding over 3 years |
European Legislation
Policy
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EU Member States |
No specific legislation regarding human embryo research |
Italy, Luxembourg, Portugal |
Allowing for the creation of human embryos for stem cell procurement by law |
Belgium, United Kingdom |
Prohibition of the procurement of embryonic stem cells from human embryos |
Austria, Spain, France, Ireland |
Prohibition of the procurement of embryonic stem cells from human embryos but allowing by law for the importation of human embryonic stem cell lines |
Germany |
Allowing for the procurement of human embryonic stem cells from supernumerary embryos by law |
Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Greece, Netherlands, Sweden, United Kingdom |
Prohibition of the creation of human embryos for research purposes and for the procurement of stem cells by law or by ratification of the Convention of the Council of Europe on Human Rights and Biomedicine signed in Oviedo on April 4, 1997 |
Austria, Denmark, Germany, Spain, Finland, France, Greece, Ireland, Netherlands, Portugal |
