 He has received Yugoslavia's National Prize for Scientific Research, and an honorary title of an Ambassador of the Republic of Slovenia in Science.From 1995 to 2013, Trontelj chaired the National Medical Ethics Committee of Slovenia and served as the Slovenian delegate to the Steering Committee on Bioethics (CDBI) of the Council of Europe.As a member of the Working Party on biomedical research, he participated in the drafting of the Additional Protocol on Biomedical Research to the Oviedo Convention.