LEGAL ASPECTS OF REGULATION ON BIOMEDICAL SCIENTIFIC RESEARCHES

The existence of numerous new relationships created upon the improvement of modern medico biological researches emphasized, during the last decades, the need of improvement of several normative regulators which are to assure the following of certain ethical and legal principles. Different scientific societies have been issuing ethical codes and regulations, in order to regulate their activities. The appliance of these codes is assured by certain committees and commissions, which come up with expert opinions according to the level up to which certain research complies with the ethical and legal principles prescribed in specific legal regulation on European and national level. In Bulgaria, there are created committees in ethics of scientific research in the field of medicine, among which are