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The Council of Europe is an international organization of 47 member countries working to foster democracy and human rights. The Council maintains a Bioethics Division within its Legal Affairs field, guided by a Steering Committee on Bioethics.

The Council’s Convention on Biomedicine and Human Rights was opened for signatures in 1997 and went into force in 1998. It explicitly prohibits inheritable genetic modification, somatic genetic modification for enhancement purposes, social sex selection, and the creation of human embryos solely for research purposes. 

Human reproductive cloning was banned by an Additional Protocol on the Prohibition of Cloning Human Beings. It was opened for signatures in 1998 and went into force that same year. 

== Offsite links == 
* [http://www.coe.int/ The Council of Europe]
* [http://www.coe.int/bioethics Council of Europe Bioethics Division]
* [http://conventions.coe.int/treaty/en/treaties/html/164.htm Convention on Biomedicine and Human Rights]
* [http://conventions.coe.int/Treaty/EN/Treaties/Html/168.htm Additional Protocol on the Cloning of Human Beings]
 
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