 The rate of advancement in biomedicine caused concern to the Council of Europe that as much as development in this field instilled hope for mankind, it also posed a threat.It became the objective of the Council of Europe to set out common general standards for the protection of the dignity of the human person in relation to biomedical sciences.A draft convention was requested by the Steering Committee on Bioethics (CDBI) and drafted by its Working Group in July 1992.