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Regulations of the Cabinet of Ministers No.9
Regulations of the Central Medical Ethics Committee
Riga, January 13, 1998 (protocol No. 2 § 6)
Issued in accordance with Section 15 of the Medical Treatment Law
I. General issues
1. The Central Medical Ethics Committee (hereinafter referred to as the Committee) shall be a collegial consultative body
ethical issues of biomedical progress related to social problems.
2. The ethics of biomedical progress is a set of moral and moral values ​​and norms in biomedicine that
relating to the protection of human rights and human dignity in genetic, sex selection, transplantation and
in other scientific studies.
3. The staff of the Committee shall be approved for four years by the Cabinet upon the proposal of the Minister of Health.
The committee shall consist of a chairman and 13 members:
3.1. two representatives of the Ministry of Health;
3.2. Representative of Riga Stradins University;
3.3. A representative of the Latvian Science Council;
3.4. Representative of the Institute of Experimental and Clinical Medicine of the University of Latvia;
3.5. (deleted by Cabinet Regulation No. 568 of 17 June 2009);
3.6. two representatives of the Latvian Medical Association;
3.7. Representative of the Latvian Association of Professional Organizations of Medical Practitioners;
3.8. Representative of the Latvian Nurses Association;
3.9. Representative of the Latvian Pharmacists' Association;
3.10. Representative of the Latvian Cooperation Organization for People with Special Needs SUSTENTO;
3.11. Representative of the Latvian Pensioners' Federation;
3.12. Representative of the Latvian Evangelical Lutheran Church;
3.13. Representative of the Latvian Biomedical Research and Study Center.
(Amended by Cabinet Regulation No. 596 of 28 October 2003; Cabinet Regulation No. 568 of 17 June 2009; Cabinet Regulation No. 735 of 2 December 2014)
II. Functions of the Committee
4. The Committee shall have the following functions:
4.1. to provide consultations and recommendations to interested institutions on issues of ethics of biomedical progress;
4.2. in co-operation with Latvian medical education institutions, to promote the inclusion of medical ethics issues
institutional social medicine, psychology and communication curricula;
4.3. to advise state administration institutions, local governments, medical treatment and medical education institutions, as well as
other institutions regarding the compliance of the regulatory enactments issued by the said institutions and institutions with medical
ethical norms;
4.4. to examine complaints and submissions of any natural or legal persons and after medical treatment institutions
and the request for opinions of the medical ethics committees of the professional associations of medical practitioners,
subject to confidentiality, the ethical progress of biomedical progress;
4.5. to evaluate the new medical technology used in medical treatment, as well as the biomedical research in which they are involved
people (hereinafter - biomedical research), compliance with the norms of medical ethics;
4.6. to propose to the Latvian Medical Association or other certification institutions authorized by the Cabinet
to revoke the certificate of a medical practitioner for medical practitioners whose actions have been in conflict with the medical treatment
ethical norms of persons;
4.7. to participate in the development of draft laws and other regulatory enactments on issues of ethics of biomedical progress;
4.8. to co-operate with institutions interested in issues of ethics of biomedical progress in Latvia and abroad, as well as
to solve other issues relevant to Latvia in the field of medical ethics;
4.9. to coordinate and methodically manage the work of biomedical research ethics committees in the country, to educate
to make recommendations on the ethics of biomedical progress and to advise on biomedical research
ethics committees;
4.10. to provide opinions on nationally important and transnational biomedical research and biotechnologies;
4.11. evaluate the observance of ethical principles in genetic research, the creation of a genome database and the main
processor operation.
(Amended by Cabinet Regulation No. 568 of 17 June 2009)
III. Rights of the Committee
5. The Committee shall have the following rights:
5.1. to receive from health care institutions, institutions, legal persons and officials for the work of the committee
the necessary information in accordance with the procedures specified in regulatory enactments;
5.2. to invite medical practitioners and other competent persons to a meeting of the committee and to receive the necessary information from them;
5.3. to invite specialists and experts to work in the committee and receive their opinions;
5.4. to provide opinions on the ethics of biomedical progress in the field of controversial issues, publications of the mass information
means, statements and other documents that are binding on medical treatment institutions and medical treatment persons
medical ethics committees of professional associations and may be the basis for revocation of a medical practitioner's certificate;
5.5. to propose the suspension of a biomedical research if its compliance with the norms of medical ethics has not been assessed.
(Amended by Cabinet Regulation No. 568 of 17 June 2009)
IV. Operation of the Committee
6. The committee shall be chaired by the chairman, who shall draw up the committee's work plan and the agenda for committee meetings and organize it
consideration of the issues envisaged and preparation of documents.
7. Meetings of the Committee shall be convened as necessary. The meetings of the Committee shall be public. If necessary Information Transparency
to ensure limited access to the information referred to in Section 5 of the Law, a closed meeting of the committee shall be convened.
[17 June 2009] (as amended by Cabinet Regulation No. 568)
8. A committee shall have a quorum if more than half of its members are present.
9. The Committee shall take its decisions by a simple majority by open vote. The number of votes is divided similarly, decisive
is the vote of the committee chair. The specialists and experts invited to the work of the Committee shall have the right to advise.
10. Minutes shall be taken of the meetings of the Committee. The decisions of the committee meeting shall be recorded in the minutes. Committees
a member whose opinion differs from the final decision of the committee shall be entitled to state his opinion in the minutes
in the Annex.
11. Chairman and members of the Committee, as well as specialists and experts invited to the work of the Committee for the work of the Committee
does not receive remuneration.
12. The material and technical support of the Committee shall be provided by the Ministry of Health.
(Amended by Cabinet Regulation No. 568 of 17 June 2009)
Prime Minister G.Krasts Minister of Welfare V.Makarovs
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