Abstract
This study aims to analyze how neuroethics research and clinical application will be regulated in the legal system of France. Neuroethics is not mentioned in the report of the Council of State, which revised the 'law relating to bioethics' "unified" in 2004. At the public hearing of the Parliamentary Office for the Evaluation of Scientific and Technological Choices and in the report by the investigating commission on information of the National Assembly, some representatives claimed to be taking research on the brain into consideration. It is also argued that there is a need to revise the 'law relating to the protection of participants in biomedical research' (1988). The bill proposed by representatives Mr. Jarde and others provides three categories of research on persons, which intends to make the procedure clear. In the bill modified by the Senate, upon first reading, the category was roughly divided into two. Problems designated as neuroethics should be dealt with as problems of bioethics, when clinical application of the result is carried out and the patient is incompetent to give consent, even if they are being treated under the law relating to research. Ultimately, ethical problems on the forefront of scientific research compose the core of bioethics.
