Ethical code
AseBio, the Spanish Association of Biocompanies, is a business association that represents the Spanish biotechnology sector, and which brings together small, medium and large companies; research centers, universities and hospitals; technology centers and parks, associations, foundations and scientific societies; that carry out research, development, testing, production, marketing, distribution and sale of biotechnological products and services in the fields of health, agriculture, chemistry, food and the environment.
AseBio's fundamental mission is to promote the development of an innovative and dynamic biotechnology-based industry in Spain.
AseBio advocates for a scientifically based legal, regulatory and supervisory environment that is transparent and predictable.
AseBio assumes its own responsibility to respond to society's ethical concerns and foster, through dialogue, a mutual understanding of these concerns, including those aspects of a cultural or religious nature.
These fundamental ethical values are aimed at all those actors interested in the biotechnology sector who wish to know the basic ethical values that underpin our work. All AseBio members share these fundamental ethical values.
Due to the innovative nature of biotechnology and the rapid development of new technologies, and because social priorities change over time, these fundamental ethical values may be modified to address new issues and knowledge that arise in the future.