MEMBERS OF COE - Selected resources by country (source: COE)
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Austria
Austrian Bioethics Commission
Opinion of the Commission : Management of scarce resources in healthcare in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic (in English) (in German)
Armenia
The Armenian Human Rights Defender
Information note on activities of the Armenian Human Rights Defender in the state of emergency (in English)
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Ministry of Civil Affairs of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Covid19 in Bosnia and Herzegovina (in English)
Croatia
Official government website for accurate and verified information on Coronavirus
Finland
The National Advisory Board on Social Welfare and Health Care Ethics (ETENE)
Social and health care ethical principles also apply under Emergency conditions (in Finnish)
France
National Consultative Ethics Committee (CCNE)
Ethical issues during de-containment: Responsibility, solidarity and trust (in French)
Contribution of the National Consultative Ethics Committee: Ethical issues facing a pandemic (in French)
Scientific Council
Opinion of the scientific council covid-19 (French)
National Digital Ethics Pilot Committee (CNPEN)
Press release relating to the digital ethics issues of epidemiological monitoring after confinement
National Health Conference
Opinion of April 2 "relating to the ongoing COVID-19 crisis" (French)
Opinion of April 15 : "Health democracy put to the test by COVID-19". (French)
National Consultative Commission for Human Rights (CNCDH)
Opinion on digital tracking of people
Germany
Federal Ministry of Health
Corona virus daily updates (in German) (English version - selected content)
The Robert Koch Institute
COVID-19 in Germany (in English) (in German)
German Ethics Council
Ad hoc statement “Solidarity and Responsibility During the Coronavirus Crisis”
Opinion Regarding Covid-19 Immunity Certificates (in English) (in German)
Press release summarizing the ad hoc statement of the German Ethics Council (in English)
Full text of the ad-hoc recommendation (in English)
Recommendations for fair and regulated access to a COVID-19 vaccine (in English) (in German)
German Interdisciplinary Association of Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine
“Decisions on resource allocation in emergency and intensive care medicine in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic”
German Institute for Human Rights and the Commissioner for Human Rights of the Republic of Poland
Human rights of older persons during a pandemic
German Competency Network Public Health on COVID-19 Ethics
Policy Brief: Public Health Ethics and Covid-19
Policy Brief: Ethical principles for the Coronavirus Global Response
Policy Brief: Vaccination Policy
Background Paper: Ethics of digital contact tracing apps for the Covid-19 pandemic response
Working group of members of the Standing committee on vaccination, the German ethics council and the National academy of sciences leopoldina
Joint position paper on how should access to a COVID-19 vaccine be regulated?
Greece
The Hellenic National Bioethics Commission
The bioethical dimension of individual responsibility in response to COVID 19 (in Greek) (Summary in English)
Italy
The Italian Committee for Bioethics
Lithuania
Ministry of Health of the Republic of Lithuania:
Relevant information about Coronavirus (COVID-19) (in English)
Decree “The Procedure of the Triage of the Patients in the Context of Extreme Situations” (2013, May 16, No. V-523) (in Lithuanian)
Lithuanian Bioethics Committee
Recommendations regarding clinical research during Covid-19 Pandemic (in Lithuanian)
Treatment and Nursing of Covid-19 Patients in Intensive Care Unit.
Practical Recommendations (in Lithuanian)
Luxembourg
Commission Nationale d'Ethique (CNE)
Luxembourg Government
Information related to the epidemic
Moldova
People's Advocate (Ombudsman) of the Republic of Moldova
Netherlands
Government of Netherlands
National Institute for Public Health and the environment
Poland
The Commissioner for Human Rights of the Republic of Poland and the German Institute for Human Rights
Human rights of older persons during a pandemic
Portugal
National Council of Ethics for Life Sciences (CNECV)
Statement COVID-19 Key Considerations
Ethical aspects of the public health emergency caused by Covid-19
San Marino
San Marino National Bioethics Committee
Opinion on COVID-19 and animal management
Information on other health ordinances
Answer to the requested opinion on ethical issues regarding the "share the solidarity mask" project
Slovenia
The Medical Ethics Commission
Spain
Spanish Bioethics Committee
Report on the bioethical aspects of prioritizing health resources in the context of the coronavirus crisis (in Spanish)
Ministry of Health
Report of the Ministry of Health on ethical aspects in pandemic situations: SARS-CoV-2 (in English)
Report of the Ministry of Health on ethical aspects in pandemic situations: SARS-CoV-2 (in Spanish)
Bioethics and Law Observatory (University of Barcelona)
Sweden
The Swedish National Board of Health and Welfare
National principles for prioritizing in the ICU under extraordinary circumstances (in Swedish)
Triage in primary care units (in Swedish)
LINKS (in Swedish)
The Swedish National Board of Health and Welfare’s documents for staff within health care
Information from The Public Health Agency in Sweden
The Swedish National Council on Medical Ethics
Report: Ethical choices in a pandemic
Switzerland
National Advisory Commission on Biomedical Ethics
Position paper on “Digital tracing of contacts as a tool to fight the pandemic - essential aspects from an ethical point of view” (in German) (in French)
Corona pandemic: the protection of life and solidarity are at the center of an ethical perspective (in German) (in French)
Turkey
Ministry of Health
Acıbadem University
A bioehtical perspective for COVID-19 infectious disease pandemic (in Turkish, with an abstract in English)
United Kingdom
United Kingdom Government
Nuffield Council on bioethics
New policy briefing on fair and equitable access to COVID-19 treatments and vaccines
Statement: COVID-19 and the basics of democratic governance
Ethical considerations in responding to the COVID-19 pandemic
Guide to the ethics of surveillance and quarantine for novel coronavirus
Briefing - COVID-19 antibody testing and ‘immunity certification’
COVID-19: biomedical testing, risk profiling and immunocapitalism
Research in global health emergencies: ethical issues
Ada Lovelace Institute
Health Research Authority (HRA)
Making changes to a research study to manage the impact of COVID
National Institue for Health Research (NIHR)
Urgent Public Health COVID-19 Studies
House of Commons Science and Technology Committee
Inquiry : UK Science, Research and Technology Capability and Influence in Global Disease Outbreaks
House of Commons and House of Lords Joint Committee on Human Rights
The Government’s response to COVID-19: human rights implications
UK Collaborative on Development Research (UKCDR) and the Global Research Collaboration for Infectious Disease Preparedness (GloPID-R)
7 Funder principles for research in epidemics
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OBSERVER STATES
Canada
The Public Health Ethics Committee (CESP) and the Commission for Ethics in Science and Technology (CEST)
Statement : “framework for reflection on the ethical issues linked to the COVID-19 pandemic” (in french)
Government of Canada
Public health ethics framework: A guide for use in response to the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada
Holy See
Pontifical Academy for Life, Dicastery of the Holy See
Pandemic and universal brotherhood
Mexico
National bioethics commission of Mexico
Statement: Bioethics in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic (in English)
Recommendations regarding the COVID-19 pandemic, from a bioethical approach (in English)
INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATIONS
European Network of Research Integrity Offices (ENRIO)
Statement on the crucial role of research integrity in the covid-19 crisis