HUMAN BEING AND LEGAL ASPECTS OF GENETIC ENGINEERING

The article is ah attempt to present some chosen kinds of problems involved with genetic engineering from the point of view of a lawyer, on one hand, and of a biotechnologist, on the other. Takng into consideration lightning progress in the field concerned - there is an urgent need for co-operation o f specialists from different scientific disciplines for to elaborate a set of norms regulating developments of this branch of science with the aim to obtain optimal patterns o f behaviour and then guarantees of respecting them. Genetic engineering is a big chance and hope for the humanity, nevertheless it brings also many serious menaces. It is essential first of all to obse regulations of the “Convention on protection of human rights and on dignity o f a human bemg as against applications of biology and medical sciences (May 1997) as well as to observe the Additional Protocol on ’’The Ban on coning of a human being" which was adopted in Pans on January , 1988