17/06/2005 (Agence Europe) - At a conference held by the Hanns Siedel foundation and the MEP Peter Liese (German Christian Democrat) in Brussels on 14 June, Margot von Renesse presented German law on human stem cells and the state of play with the debate in Germany. The Bavarian Secretary of State for Health and former MEP Emilia Müller opposed any funding for research on embryonic stem being cells paid for by the 7th framework programme on research and development (FPRD). Ms Müller, and many of the others who took the floor, recommended that research be carried out on adult stem cells and cells taken from blood from the umbilical cord. She also feels that the cell lines which are available today- from imports, in the case of Germany, and from surplus embryos in countries which authorise their use- are enough to carry out the full range of research it is currently possible to carry out. When the sixth FPRD was adopted, the European Parliament limited the possibility to pay for research on embryonic stem cells to activities carried out on existing cell lines when conducted in a Member State which authorises this.