- Published: 01.12.2003.
Ambassador Neven Madey handed over to the Secretary General of the Council of Europe, the documents by which Croatia ratified the legal instruments of extreme importance
On 28 November 2003, Croatia’s Permanent Representative to the Council of Europe, Ambassador Neven Madey, handed over to the Secretary General of the Council of Europe, Walter Schwimmer, the documents by which Croatia ratified the legal instruments of extreme importance: Convention of the Protection of Human Rights and Dignity of the Human Being with regard to the Application of Biology and Medicine: Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine, and the two additional protocols – Protocol on the Prohibition of Cloning Human Beings and Protocol on Transplantation of Organs and Tissues of Human Origin.
Croatia was among the first members of the Council of Europe to ratify the fundamental European international and legal instruments in the field of biology and medicine that reflect the most recent scientific achievements.
The Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine is the
first binding international instrument regarding the protection of human
dignity, rights and freedoms in relation to the scientific and medical
progress. The Additional Protocol on the Prohibition of Cloning Human
Beings is the only binding legal text in this field that strictly prohibits
any form of intervention the purpose of which is the cloning of human
being. The Additional Protocol on Transplantation of Organs and Tissues
of Human Origin defines the general principles and specific conditions
for the transplantation of organs, regarding both living and deceased
persons.