ABSTRACT
In the context of contemporary scientific development, bioethics must offer an answer to the scientific challenges that usually cross moral or juridical boundaries. Obtaining the unification of diverse national bioethical systems is a difficult task, primarily because ethics or bioethics, by definition, are very much influenced by the local customs, common-laws and religious beliefs of each country. The PRIVIREAL project may prove to be salutary in this attempt to provide an overview of the bioethical systems in the European Union and future candidate countries. The following is an overview of the bioethical system in Romania, a country that is required to fulfil all the requested standards to become part of the European Union in 2007 or 2008. The performance of clinical trials is regulated by an Order of the Ministry of Health which introduces the Rules of Good Practice in Clinical Trials into Romania.
