Parliamentary Ethics Advisory Board
The Parliamentary Ethics Committee ( Parliamentary Advisory Council on questions of ethics, especially in the life sciences (ethics committee) ) of the German Bundestag was at the joint request of the fractions of CDU / CSU and SPD as an accompanying parliamentary body for the German Ethics Council used on 26 April 2007 and lasted until 2009 .
tasks
The core task was to accompany and support the debates of the German Ethics Council on the part of the German Bundestag. This also included receiving statements from the German Ethics Council and forwarding orders from the Bundestag to the Ethics Council.
Members
The advisory board consisted of nine full and nine deputy members: The chairman was the SPD MP René Röspel , the deputy chairman was initially the Union MP Ilse Aigner (April to December 2008), followed by the CDU / CSU MP Alexander Dobrindt (December 2008 to March 2009) and since March 2009 Stefan Müller (Erlangen). The advisory board also included the Union MPs Jürgen Gehb and Annette Widmann-Mauz , MPs Carola Reimann and Marianne Schieder from the ranks of the SPD , Ulrike Flach from the FDP and Petra Sitte (Die Linke) and Priska Hinz (Alliance 90 /The green).
The Union parties named the MPs Norbert Geis , Hubert Hüppe and Michael Kretschmer as deputy members of the Ethics Advisory Board, the SPD Peter Friedrich and Matthias Miersch , the FDP Michael Kauch , the Left Party Bodo Ramelow and the Greens Birgitt Bender .
activity
After its constituent meeting on April 23, 2008, the Advisory Board received the reports of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (presented by State Secretary Thomas Rachel ) and the Federal Ministry of Health (presented by State Secretary Rolf Schwanitz ) on ethically relevant topics in two introductory meetings . In addition to two-time reports of the President of the German Ethics Council, Prof. Edzard Schmidt-Jortzig , the ethics committee looked at a further meeting with the discussion of ethical issues at European level and treated in three expert meetings on the topics of nanotechnology , chimeras and hybrids and synthetic biology also Own content-related priorities to which external experts were invited. With the meeting on June 17, 2009 and the final discussion on its own activity report, the ethics committee concluded its work in the 16th legislative period.
A group motion from 241 members of the German Bundestag on May 20, 2010 suggested the reinstatement of a corresponding body in the current electoral term and provided for the doubling of its members and a considerable expansion of powers (including the right to self-involvement ).
With a majority of votes from the CDU / CSU and FDP, however, this application was rejected by the Committee on Education, Research and Technology Assessment in its meeting on December 1, 2010.
Individual evidence
- ↑ See report on the work of the Ethics Advisory Board , Bundestag printed paper 16/13780 of July 1, 2009.
- ^ Web archive of the German Bundestag. 16th legislative term. Retrieved March 15, 2011 .
- ↑ See report on the work of the Ethics Advisory Board , Bundestag printed paper 16/13780 of July 1, 2009.
- ↑ application. (PDF; 106 kB) Bundestag printed paper 17/1806. May 20, 2010, accessed March 8, 2011 .
- ↑ The establishment of a parliamentary ethics committee rejected. Committee on Education, Research and Technology Assessment. (No longer available online.) German Bundestag, December 1, 2010, archived from the original on July 7, 2011 ; Retrieved March 8, 2011 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
