ABSTRACT
In various practical contexts it has been suggested that for actions that affect groups, such as the implementation of an engineering project, it is morally required to obtain informed consent by the group in question. In this chapter I start with different contexts in which informed group consent has been requested. This is followed by the introduction of three different interpretations of group consent. The interpretation of corporate group consent is based on the idea of the group as an entity, which may have moral standing. When group consent is interpreted as collective consent, it is the role that the group has for its individual members that is the main focus. In the discussion of group consent as participatory consent, the emphasis is on the decision procedure in which the affected group should be involved at various stages.
