Comité Consultatif National d'Ethique

BREAKING NEWS | 05-08-21

Ethical issues regarding “Autonomous vehicles"

In this opinion, the French National Pilot Committee for Digital Ethics (CNPEN) analyses the ethical issues raised by automated driving vehicles while examining the validity of the motivations invoked to justify its development, such as the improvement of road safety through eliminating human...

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BREAKING NEWS | 19-07-21

Ethical issues about digital tools lifting of lockdown

On April 30, 2020, the French Minister of Health and Solidarity and the Secretary of State for the Digital Economy referred to the French National Pilot Committee for Digital Ethics (CNPEN) the question of ethical issues related to the design, implementation, and uses of digital tools in the...

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BREAKING NEWS | 04-01-21

National Pilot Committee for Digital Ethics - Ethics Watch Bulletin No. 3

Ethics Watch Bulletin No. 3 : Ethical issues related to digital tools used in telemedicine and telecare in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. Right from the start of the lockdown period, there was a sharp rise in telemedicine and telecare procedures: in just three weeks, their...

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BREAKING NEWS | 01-10-20

National Pilot Committee for Digital Ethics - Ethics watch bulletin No.2

This bulletin is part of the oversight activity that the CNPEN has been pursuing since the beginning of the health crisis. Its objective is to contribute to that oversight process from an ethical perspective by analyzing and discussing the measures that the...

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BREAKING NEWS | 15-07-20

CNPEN The ethical issues of conversational agents

The National Pilot Committee for Digital Ethics (CNPEN) was established in December 2019 at the request of the Prime Minister. Composed of 27 members, this committee brings together digital specialists, philosophers, doctors, lawyers and members of civil society. One of the three referrals...

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BREAKING NEWS | 14-04-20

National Pilot Committee for Digital Ethics - Ethics watch bulletin No.1

Reflections and alert points on the digital ethical issues in acute health crisis situations: This first newsletter of the National Pilot Committee for Digital Ethics presents the context and develops two specific points. On the one hand, ethical questions related to the use of digital tools...

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BREAKING NEWS | 09-04-20

Response to the request from the Ministry of Health and Solidarity on the strengthening of protection measures in EHPADs and USLDs

Response to the request from the Ministry of Health and Solidarity on the strengthening of protection measures in EHPADs and USLDs Download the publication

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BREAKING NEWS | 09-04-20

Contribution from the French National Consultative Ethics Committee to the Covid-19 crisis - Ethical issues in the face of a pandemic

COVID-19 CONTRIBUTION FROM THE FRENCH NATIONAL CONSULTATIVE ETHICS COMMITTEE Ethical issues in the face of a pandemic Response to the request from the Minister for Health and Solidarity This contribution of the CCNE is not exempt from the time constraints of its purpose:...

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BREAKING NEWS | 03-03-20

OPINION 133, ETHICAL CHALLENGES OF GENE EDITING : BETWEEN HOPE AND CAUTION

Genome engineering has for decades been a key driver of understanding and more recently has seen major advances that have led to gene editing.In the plant world, crosses between varieties, methods of selection, techniques of in vitro multiplication, mutagenesis, transgenesis, and recently gene...

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BREAKING NEWS | 08-02-19

CONTRIBUTION OF THE COMITÉ CONSULTATIF NATIONAL D’ÉTHIQUE TO THE REVISION OF THE BIOETHICS LAW

The purpose of this document is to summarize the opinion of the Comité consultatif national d’éthique (CCNE; National Consultative Ethics Committee) before the scheduled 2019 revision of the bioethics law by the French Parliament. This reflection is part of the Etats généraux de la Bioéthique...

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BREAKING NEWS | 29-11-18

ETHICS AND GERMLINE MODIFICATION: CCNE CALLS FOR STRONGER GLOBAL GOVERNANCE

Following the announcement by Dr Jiankui HE of the birth of twins from embryos whose genome had been modified prior to their transfer into the womb, France’s CCNE (National Consultative Ethics Committee for Health and Life Sciences) restates its opposition to the transfer of genetically modified...

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BREAKING NEWS | 06-11-18

Synthesis, Report of the French National Consultative Ethics Committee, June 2018, Opinions of the citizen committee

The object of this document is to report on a movement of unprecedented amplitude (in France and possibly worldwide) for collective reflection on major contemporary bioethics issues. The process took the form of a public debate, held in 2018, “The Bioethics Estates General”, as provided for by...

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BREAKING NEWS | 25-09-18

Opinion n° 128 (15 February 2018) The Ethical Issues of Ageing. What is the point of concentrating the elderly all together in “residential homes”? What incentives for society to become more inclusive of its elderly population?

The ageing of society in today’s world is an undeniable demographic fact and should incite us to review how we live together so that we can become more inclusive of our elders. Laws have been voted in the last few years to try and face up to this reality, such as a 2015 law on adapting...

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BREAKING NEWS | 07-03-18

CCNE’s Opinion n° 127 Migrants’ Health and Ethical imperatives

For decades, France has been host to immigration for political, economic or cultural reasons. Today, the word “migrants” has come to refer to a moment in time in the lives of men and women who have decided to leave their country of origin. They reside on French soil for very diverse periods of time...

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