ABSTRACT
In April 1984, the Danish Minister of the Interior established a committee to investigate the ethical problems connected with genetic engineering, in vitro fertilization, artificial insemination and prenatal diagnosis. In the Committee's report, "The Price of Progress" the establishment of an ethics council for the health system was recommended. In 1987, the Danish Parliament adopted a bill to set up the Danish Council of Ethics. The Council makes annual reports both in Danish and in English. In 1991, a draft Danish bill was published and the resulting legislation came into force in October 1992 with a statutory obligation to undertake review and revision if necessary by 1995–96. This chapter discusses this 1992 Act that deals with Ethics Review Committees and treatment of biomedical research projects and further considers the 1997 Act on assisted reproduction that covers assisted reproduction where doctors are involved.
