PORTUGUESE LEGISLATION ON THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE DNA DATABASE [in Portuguese]

• Order 270/2009 of 17 March (Ministries of Justice and Health)
Defines the genetic markers to be included in the files of the DNA database for civil and criminal identification purposes

• Resolution 14/2009 (Assembly of the Republic)
Election of the members of the Supervisory Board of the DNA profile database

• Deliberation 3191/2008 of 3 December (National Institute of Legal Medicine, I.P.)
Regulations for the functioning of the DNA profile database

• Law 49/2008 of 27 August (Assembly of the Republic)
Approving the law on the organisation of criminal investigation

• Lei n.º 5/2008, de 12 de Fevereiro (Assembly of the Republic)
Approving the creation of a DNA profile database for civil and criminal identification purposes

• Law 45/2004 of 19 August
Establishing the legal regime for forensic and medical-legal expertise

• Decree-Law 395/99 (Ministry of Justice)
Establishing the legal regime for the computer files of the Lisbon, Porto and Coimbra Institutes of Legal Medicine

INSTITUTIONS INVOLVED IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE DNA DATABASE IN PORTUGAL

• Associação Portuguesa de Bioética [Portuguese Bioethics Association]
        - Estudo n.º E/07/APB/06 sobre a perspectiva ética das bases de dados genéticos (Study no. E/07/APB/06 on the ethical perspective on genetic databases - in Portuguese)

• Comissão Nacional de Protecção de Dados [National Data Protection Commission]
        - Parecer 18/2007 da CPND (Opinion 18/2007 - in Portuguese)

• Conselho Nacional de Ética para as Ciências da Vida [The National Council of Ethics for the Life Sciences]
        - 52/CNECV/07 - Parecer n.º 52 do Conselho Nacional de Ética para as Ciências da Vida (52/CNECV/07 - Opinion no. 52 - in Portuguese)

• Instituto Nacional de Medicina Legal [National Institute of Legal Medicine]

• Ministério da Justiça [Ministry of Justice]

EUROPEAN LEGISLATION ON THE IMPLEMENTATION AND USE OF DNA DATABASES, BY COUNTRY

• Germany - German Code of Criminal Procedure

• Austria - Sicherheitspolizeigesetz (Security Police Act)

• Belgium - Loi Relative à la Procédure d'Identification par Analyse ADN en Matière Pénale (Law on Identification Procedures for the Analysis of DNA in Criminal Proceedings)

• Denmark - Law Establishing a Central DNA Profile Register

• Spain - Ley Orgánica 10/2007, de 8 de Octubre, Reguladora de la Base de Datos Policial Sobre Identificadores Obtenidos a Partir del ADN (Organic Law 10/2007 of 8 October, Regulating the Police Database for DNA Identification)

• Finland - Pakkokeinolaki (Coercive Measures Act 450/1987)

• France - Code de Procédure Pénale (Code of Criminal Procedure)

• Netherlands - Wet DNA-Onderzoek Bij Veroordeelden

• Italy - Istituzione della Banca Dati Nazionale del DNA e del Laboratorio Centrale per la Banca Dati Nazionale del DNA (Institution of the National DNA Database and Central Laboratory for the National DNA Database)

• Latvia - Law on Development and Use of the National DNA Database

• Luxembourg - Loi du 25 Août 2006 Relative Aux Procédures d’Identification par Empreintes Génétiques en Matière Pénale et Portant Modification du Code d’Instruction Criminelle (Law of 25 August 2006 on Identification Procedures for Genetic Prints in Criminal Proceedings, Amending the Code of Criminal Procedure)

• Norway - Criminal Procedure Code (English Version)

• Ireland - Criminal Justice (Forensic Evidence and DNA Database System) Bill 2010 as Initiated and Explanatory Memorandum

EU DNA DATABASE INSTITUTIONS AND PUBLICATIONS

• Centre for Biomedical Ethics and Law - (2007) National forensic DNA databases: Social-ethical challenges & current practices in the EU

• EDNAP - European DNA Profiling Group - (2004) Standardization of DNA profiling techniques in the European Union - STADNAP

• European Network of Forensic Science Institutes

• Williams, Robin; Johnson, Paul (2005) Forensic DNA databasing: A european perspective. Interim Report.

PROJECTS AND ORGANISATIONS RELEVANT TO THE MONITORING OF BIOINFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES IN EUROPE

• Genewatch - Not-for-profit group that monitors developments in genetic technologies from a public interest, human rights, environmental protection and animal welfare perspective
        - (n/d) The UK Police National DNA Database

• HIDE – Homeland Security, Biometric Identification & Personal Detection Ethics - HIDE is a project promoted by the European Commission (EC) and coordinated by the Centre for Science, Society and Citizenship, an independent research centre based in Rome (IT), concerned with monitoring the ethical and privacy impacts of biometric and personal detection technologies

• INTERPOL - International police organization which supports co-operation in combating international and trans-border crime

• LiSS - Living in Surveillance Societies - European research programme designed to increase and deepen knowledge on living and working in the surveillance age

• Nuffield Council on Bioethics - Independent body that examines and reports on ethical issues in biology and medicine
        - (2010) The future of forensic bioinformation
        - (2007) The forensic use of bioinformation: Ethical issues - Full report

• Forensic Genetics Policy Initiative - Collaborative project between GeneWatch UK, Privacy International, and the Council for Responsible Genetics, aiming to provide information and to involve the global civil society in the processes of construction of DNA databases.