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Science And Technology: Their Relationship with Law

Chairman was the erst- rent and emerging issues ry control and regulations;

while President of India; in Human Genetics, and
Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam a consultative mechanism To devise a mechanism
formed the basis of the for development oh Na- to establish links with the

‘’Hyderabad Declaration tional Genetics Policy and International Community
on Impact of New Biology

on Justice Delivery Sys-
tem’’. These deliberations
of law were co-organized

by the Centre for DNA
Fingerprinting and Diag-

nostics (CDFD) and NAL-
SAR University of law.
The deliberations brought

together the Judges of the
Supreme Court and the

High Courts, representa-
tives from various Com-
missions like the Law

Commission and the Hu-
man Rights Commission,

Directors of the National
Law Schools and other
legal luminaries, lawyers, guidelines in that area; of Dispute for resolution

scientists, doctors, bio- of new issues in new biol-
industrialists, NGO’’s, To establish an Ethics ogy;

police investigators, jour- Committee to assess ethi-
nalists and a couple of cal, legal and social issues To suitably amend the
participants from abroad. raised by research on hu- Patents law to strike a fair

Inter alia the meeting em- man genome and use of balance between public
phasized the following: DNA databases; and private interests in

case of patents that assert
To establish a Human To statutorily define status property rights over ge-
Genetics Commission to of human embryo so that netic material.

provide technical and stra- research on embryonic
tegic advice about the cur- cells is done under statuto-

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