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Vol. 55 No. 4 (2006)
https://doi.org/10.4081/mem.2006.347
VII Programma quadro europeo di ricerca: la questione etico-giuridica delle cellule staminali
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This contribute examines the recent European vicissitude of the communitarian financing on stem cells research. Such research would take place in Countries that allow it, also with the economic incentives of Countries that prohibit it (Italy, for example). The issue is tied up to two events closely connected: 1. starting procedures for the approval of the 7th Framework Program (FP7), Building the Europe of Knowledge (2007-2013); 2. the arbitrary withdrawal of the Italian adhesion to the "ethical declaration" against the use of embryo stem cells, by Italian Minister of University and Research, Fabio Mussi. FP7 represents the most important instrument in order to realize "an European space of research" which has been already started with the 6th Framework. The new Program identifies four main objectives (cooperation, ideas, people and capacities), which correspond to the four main specific programmes around which the European research effort is to be structured. In order to make the financing embryo research question more comprehensive, the paper takes into account technical questions and part of the Framework Program's background, including moratorium on embryonic stem cells-based research. In such issue the comparison took place between three different positions: "Gargani amendment" (absolute prohibition to destroy human embryo); "Niebler amendment" (limiting research to embryo stem cells line created before December 2003); the position of the Committee of Industry, Research and Energy (ITRE) (financing research of human stem cells including the embryonic stage). In spite of the approval, coming from the European Parliament on last June, of the most permissive proposal, the Author demonstrates that in reality the preference of the European Parliament was for the refusal of the economic incentive. In spite of everything, the auspice is that Italy - inside the European Union - doesn't let itself carry away because of an inferiority complex, but indeed, it perceives its function as mover in the construction of Europe, cemented on the idea of human dignity and human rights.
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VII Programma quadro europeo di ricerca: la questione etico-giuridica delle cellule staminali. (2006). Medicina E Morale, 55(4). https://doi.org/10.4081/mem.2006.347
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