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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 7780

18 August 2000
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/biotechnology
Tony Blair proposes that British MPs approve cloning of embryos for therapeutic purposes

Brussels, 17/08/2000 (Agence Europe) - The European Commission has found nothing further to say regarding the British government's plan to approve human embryo cloning for therapeutic purposes. "Member States have the right to introduce such legislation", a Commission spokesperson declared on Thursday, stipulating that this issue was not covered by any Community regulation. The only regulation in the matter is a directive banning the patenting of the human genome, the spokesperson stressed,...