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SENTINEL workshop on ethical issues in radiology: a perspective from the European Parliament
Ballinhassig, Co. Cork, Ireland
* Corresponding author: kathy.sinnott@europarl.europa.eu
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In the European Parliament right now, the author is working with a small team of authors and shadow Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) on the proposed Advanced Therapy Directive(1). The directive deals with the regulation of cell, gene and tissue therapies. Though this is not the everyday work of radiology, it is an area in which radiology will play a part. It is the new frontier of medicine and for this reason it is the context in which the author, as a legislator with particular interest in people and health, works and in which it is arguably, easiest to see where ethics is going.
In working out the details of the advanced therapy regulation, issues such as what is exempted, costs of registration, protection for small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), etc., take up most of the directive. The decisions made here, for instance, about whether derogation should be