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Joanna Rózyńska¹, Marek Czarkowski

¹Graduate School for Social Research, Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland. jrozynska@yahoo.co.uk

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Polish regulations permit emergency research without consent under specific therapeutic conditions. However, current interpretations offer insufficient protection, necessitating stricter guidelines and a unified legal act for medical experiments.

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Area of Science:

Medical Law
Bioethics
Clinical Trials Regulation

Background:

European Union Directive 2001/20/EC mandates informed consent for clinical trials, even in emergencies.
Polish regulations, through complex interpretations, allow emergency research without consent under certain conditions.
Current Polish legal framework for emergency research lacks explicit legislative intent and comprehensive safeguards.

Purpose of the Study:

To analyze the legal basis for conducting emergency research without consent in Poland.
To evaluate the adequacy of existing Polish regulations in protecting research subjects' autonomy and rights.
To propose recommendations for improving the legal framework governing emergency medical research.

Main Methods:

Analysis of Polish laws and regulations pertaining to medical experiments and clinical trials.
Interpretation of legal provisions concerning informed consent in emergency research scenarios.
Comparison of Polish regulations with European Union directives on good clinical practice.

Main Results:

Emergency research in Poland is permissible without consent only within the category of therapeutic experiments.
Key conditions include life-threatening urgency, impossibility of obtaining immediate consent, and no prior refusal by the subject.
Existing safeguards, such as bioethics committee approval and provision of information to legal representatives, are deemed insufficient.

Conclusions:

Polish emergency research regulations require enhanced subject protection, including conditions that alternative consent-capable participants are unavailable and deferred consent is obtained.
A consolidated act governing all aspects of medical experiments, including emergency research, is urgently needed.
Legislative reform is necessary to align Polish law with ethical principles and ensure robust protection of research participants.