The European Commission supports activities to give the floor to representatives of Research Ethics Committees from different countries as possible.

Conference:
Research Ethics Committees in Europe: facing the future together, held in Brussels, 27-28 January 2005
http://europa.eu.int/comm/research/conferences/2005/recs/pdf/report_en.pdf

Activities of Science and Society of the European Commission:
http://www.cordis.lu/science-society/home.html