Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 February 2017
* [The Draft Additional Protocol and Explanatory Report are reproduced from Council of Europe Document DIR/JUR (97) 9, Strasbourg, July 4, 1997 and Parliamentary Assembly Opinion 202 (1997) is reproduced from Council of Europe Document EOPIN202. 1403-23/9/97-13-E, Provisional Edition, September 23, 1997. The Draft Additional Protocol on the Prohibition of Cloning Human Beings was prepared, at the request of the Committee of Ministers, by the Steering Committee on Bioethics (CDBI). The Committee of Ministers decided on July 3 to submit the draft protocol to the Parliamentary Assembly for an opinion. The Parliamentary Assembly adopted its opinion on the draft protocol during its session from September 22 to 26, 1997.
[The Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Biomedicine appears at 36 I.L.M. 817 (1997).
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1 Assembly debate on 23 September 1997 (26th Sitting). See Doc. 7895, report of the Committee on Science and Technology (rapporteur: Mr Plattner) and Doc. 7906, opinion of the Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights (rapporteur: Mr Schwimmer). Text adopted by the Assembly on 23 September 1997 (26th Sitting).