Recommendations, opinions, and reports
The Austrian Bioethics Commission publishes its opinions, recommendations and reports as paper-based publications and in PDF-format on this website.
Reform of the Reproductive Medicine Act - Opinion of the Austrian Bioethics Commission (PDF 1169 kB)
Recommendations for the terminology of medical decisions in end-of-life situations, (print version, Englisch and German) (PDF 2136 kB)
Biobanks for Medical Research (PDF 1628 kB) Amendments to the Bioethics Commission Report of May 2007, 14 March 2011
Codification of Legislation on Medical Research (print version, Englisch and German) (PDF 806 kB), tagged version (English) (PDF 370 kB) Opinion of the Austrian Bioethics Commission, 10 January 2011
Genetic and Genome-Wide Testing on Internet Report of the Austrian Bioethics Commission (PDF 845 kB), 10 May 2010
Ethical Aspects of the Development and Use of Assistive Technologies (PDF 304 kB)
13 July 2009
Research on Human Emryonic Stem Cells (print version, Englisch and German) (PDF 1094 kB), tagged version (English) (DOC 336 kB), 16 March 2009
Recommendations with Gender Reference for Ethics Committees and Clinical Studies (PDF 91 kB), 15 November 2008
Cord Blood Banking (PDF 91 kB)
Ruling of the Bioethics Commission, 19 May 2008
Nanotechnology, a Catalogue of Ethical Problems and Recommendations (PDF 36 kB)
Ruling of the Bioethics Commission of 13 June 2007
Opinion of the Bioethics Commission at the Federal Chancellery Biobanks for Medical Research of 9 May 2007 (PDF 118 kB)
Arguments Concerning the Detabe The Child as a case of damage Prompted by Divergent Decisions of the Suprime Court (PDF 57 kB)
Ruling of the Bioethics Commission of 18 April 2007
Preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) (PDF 244 kB)
Report of the Bioethics Commission of July 2004
Draft Federal Legislation to Amend the Law Regulating Reproductive Medicine (FMedG) (PDF 16 kB)
Resolution of the Bioethics Commission of 10 March 2004
Reproductive Cloning (PDF 13 kB)
Decision of the Bioethics Commission of 12 February 2003
Stem Cell Research in the context of the EU's Sixth Framework Programme Research (PDF 19 kB)
Decision of the Bioethics Commission of 3 April and 8 May 2002
Implementation of the Council Directive 98/44/EC on the legal protection of biotechnological inventions (PDF 17 kB)
Decision of the Bioethics Commission of 6 March 2002
Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine of the Council of Europe (PDF 21 kB)
Decision of the Bioethics Commission of 11 February 2002