Ethics Council

An ethics council , also an ethics advisory board , ethics committee , ethics committee is basically a body that advises an organization or an institution on ethical issues, sometimes also making judgments in the manner of an arbitration tribunal .

Such facilities exist in a number of areas of expertise, including:

• Science ethics in general:
  • World Commission on the Ethics of Scientific Knowledge and Technology of UNESCO (COMEST, founded 1998)
• Medicine and genetic engineering, animal experiments, reproductive medicine and other areas of medical ethics :
  • Sector in general: ethics committees primarily in research, clinical ethics committees in practice
  • Europe: Steering Committee on Bioethics (CDBI) of the Council of Europe, advises the member countries (founded in 1992, for the Oviedo Convention 1997)
  • Germany: German Ethics Council and Parliamentary Ethics Advisory Council at government level
  • Switzerland: National ethics committee in the field of human medicine (NEK)
  • Austria: Bioethics Commission at the Federal Chancellery at government level (since 2001)
• Protection of privacy , data protection , information ethics :
  • Switzerland: Ethics Council for Swiss Public Statistics , see Swiss Public Statistics Charter
  • Austria: Data Protection Council at the Federal Chancellery, at government level (DSG 2000)
  • Germany: Federal Government's Data Ethics Commission (since July 2018); Council for Digital Ethics of the Hessian State Government (since August 2018)
• Political Ethics :
  • Ad hoc ethics committee (also: ethics committee ) of the EU commission, advises former commission members on the compatibility of further activities (C (2003) 3750)
  • United States House Committee on Ethics , advises MPs on lobbying, donations, and conflicts of interest
• Further:
  • Independent FIFA Ethics Committee , internal advice on sports ethics
  • Austrian Press Council , for the voluntary self-regulation of print media, to adhere to the code of honor for the Austrian press (2012), which also includes questions of press ethics
  • Austrian Ethics Council for Public Relations , for the voluntary self-regulation of Austrian service providers in public relations

Individual evidence

1. ^ World Commission on the Ethics of Scientific Knowledge and Technology (COMEST) , unesco.org
2. ↑ ^{a b} Ethics Committees in Austria. openscience.or.at (accessed January 26, 2017).
3. ^ Agreement by Switzerland, but not yet signed by Germany, Austria and Liechtenstein; Bioethics at the Council of Europe. coe.int (accessed January 26, 2017);
4. ↑ NEK on nek-cne.ch
5. ↑ prethikrat.at