When the CCNE was created in 1983, as the world’s first national ethics committee, it paved the road for counterparts in other countries to address the new issues raised by the progress of science and medicine:

• Argentina : Comité Nacional de Etica en la Ciencia y la Tecnologia 
• Australia : Australian Health Committee 
• Bangladesh: National Research Ethics Committee 
• Belgium: Comité consultatif de bioéthique de Belgique
• Benin : Comité National pour l’Ethique de la Recherché en Santé 
• Brasilia: Comissao Nacional de Etica em Perquisa
• Canada : Commission de l'éthique de la science et de la technologie
• Cyprus: Cyprus National Committee on Bioethics
• Czech Republic : The Bioethics Commission of the Research and Development Council 
• Denmark: Danish Council of Ethics
• Egypt : Egyptian National Bioethics Committee
• Espagna: Comité de Bioética de Espana 
• Estonia: Estonian Council of Bioethics
• Fidji : Fiji National Research Ethics Review Committee 
• Finland : 
  National Advisory Board on Research Ethics
• Germany: Deutscher Ethikrat
• Greece : Hellenic National Bioethics Commission
• Iceland : National Bioethics Committee of Iceland 
• Israel: Bioethics Committee of the Israel Academy of Science and Humanities 
• Italy: Comitato nazionale per la bioetica
• Jamaica : National Bioethics Committee of Jamaica 
• Japan: Bioethics Council Safety Committee for Science and Technology 
• Lithuaniae: Lithuanian Bioethics Committee 
• Luxembourg : Commission Consultative Nationale d'Ethique pour les Sciences de la Vie et de la Santé
• Mexico : Comision Nacional de Bioética
• Nepal : Nepal Health Research Council 
• New Zealand : National Ethics Advisory Committee
• Norway:National Committees for Research Ethics
• Portugal : Conselho Nacional de Etica para as Ciencias da Vida
• Romania: Comisia Nationala a Romaniei pentru UNESCO
• Russia : Russian Commission for Bioethics 
• Saudi Arabia : National Committee for Medical and Bio-ethics
• Serbia: National Committee for Bioethics of UNESCO Commission Serbia
• Singapore : Bioethics Advisory Committee 
• Slovenia: National Medical Ethics Committee
• South Africa : The National Health Research Ethics Council 
• Sri Lanka : National Committee on Ethics in Science and Technology
• Sudan: National Health Research Ethics Review Committee
• Sweden: Swedish National Council on Medical Ethics
• Switzerland :
  Swiss National Advisory Commission on Biomedical Ethics 
  Federal Ethics Committee on Non-Human Biotechnology 
• The Gambia : Gambia Government/MRC Joint Ethics Committee 
• The Netherlands : The Health Council of the Netherlands 
• The Philippines: Philippines Health Research Ethics Board
• The United Kingdom :
  Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority
  Nuffield Council on Bioethics
• Uganda : National Bioethics Committee of Uganda 
• Uruguay : Comision de Bioetica y Calidad Integra de Atencion en Salud 
• USA: President’s Council on Bioethics

Because the ethical issues raised by health and life sciences know no borders, the CCNE maintains many informal bilateral and trilateral relations. Regular meetings between the German, British and French ethics committees illustrate this will to share at the international level.

The Committee takes part in European initiatives to contribute to an international public debate.