Amendment No. 2 | Doc. 14328 | 11 October 2017

The use of new genetic technologies in human beings

Signatories: Mr Valeriu GHILETCHI, Republic of Moldova, EPP/CD ; Ms Mónika BARTOS, Hungary, EPP/CD ; Ms Rózsa HOFFMANN, Hungary, EPP/CD ; Mr István HOLLIK, Hungary, EPP/CD ; Mr Killion MUNYAMA, Poland, EPP/CD ; Mr Zsolt NÉMETH, Hungary, EPP/CD ; Mr Ionuț-Marian STROE, Romania, EPP/CD ; Mr Tobias ZECH, Germany, EPP/CD

Origin - 2017 - Third part-session

In the draft recommendation, paragraph 2, replace the third sentence with the following sentence:

"However, other techniques such as pronuclear transfer technology, which is used to avoid maternal inheritance of mitochondrial disease, have been used and resulted in the birth of two babies (one of them for reasons other than the treatment of mitochondrial disease), despite considerable ethical controversy and scientific uncertainty about the long-term effects."