39. Recalls that, as specified in the legal basis of the 7 Framework Programme (FP7), research activities supported by the FP7 should respect fundamental ethical principles, including those reflected in the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union; calls on the Commission to improve the way in which it enforces ethical principles in the evaluation of eligibility criteria for participation in the FP7 research programmes in the area of ‘security’; also calls on the Commission to make an ethical and societal impact assessment a standard element ...[+++]of each project to be financed under the FP7 and future research programmes;

39. Recalls that, as specified in the legal basis of the 7 Framework Programme (FP7), research activities supported by the FP7 should respect fundamental ethical principles, including those reflected in the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union; calls on the Commission to improve the way in which it enforces ethical principles in the evaluation of eligibility criteria for participation in the FP7 research programmes in the area of ‘security’; also calls on the Commission to make an ethical and societal impact assessment a standard element ...[+++]of each project to be financed under the FP7 and future research programmes;

Researchers should adhere to the recognised ethical practices and fundamental ethical principles appropriate to their discipline(s) as well as to ethical standards as documented in the different national, sectoral or institutional codes of ethics.

(7) The present conditions are based on the principles established by the European Group on Ethics, especially the fundamental ethical principles underlined in the opinion No. 15: the principle of respect for human dignity (which requires provisions of guarantees against risks of arbitrary experimentation); the principle of human autonomy which entails the giving of informed consent and the protection of personal data; the principle of justice and of beneficence (namely with regard the improvement and protection of health); the principle of freedom of research (which should be balanced against other principles) and; the principle of ...[+++]proportionality (non-availability of adequate alternative methods in view of the scientific objectives to be reached).

O. whereas in Europe there is consensus regarding fundamental ethical standards and principles which have found expression in particular in the Charter of Fundamental Rights, and whereas organisations such as the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organisation (Unesco), the World Health Organisation (WHO), the Council of Europe, and the European Union itself use as their guiding principles ethical principles which include in particular the inviolability of human dignity, individual self-determination (implying that a person must give his or her free and informed consent, privacy must be respected, and personal data must ...[+++] remain confidential), the necessity of research, protection of public health, free access for all to necessary health care, respect for the disabled and their right to independence and to integration into society, and non-discrimination on the grounds of genetic, racial or religious features,

essential ethical principles must be emphasised, in order – without disregarding the diversity of ideas and cultural traditions in the Member States – to serve as a basis for general assessment of the development and use of human genetics and for the laws rendered necessary in this area; it must be recalled that those basic ethical principles are laid down in the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union and in the relevant international agreements, such as the Helsinki Declaration adopted in Edinburgh in October 2000, the ...[+++]Council of Europe Convention on human rights and biomedicine signed in Oviedo on 4 April 1997, the additional protocol outlawing human cloning signed in Paris on 12 January 1998, and the Universal Declaration on the human genome and human rights adopted by UNESCO;