The Council of Europe’s legal regulation concerning development of biology and medicine undoubtedly form the most interesting, but certainly not perfect, over-national system of protection of human beings in prenatal stages of development. The strength of the mentioned system is that it based on well-known and common acceptable values and rules such as human dignity and its protection. The aim of the paper is to present the reasons behind adopting such a system, as well as the consequences of the latter.

The author argues that in such a way a revolution within the human rights system of the Council of Europe took place. This revolution caused a significant expansion of the Council of Europe’s system of human rights’ protection and changed the perspective of the protection from vertical to the horizontal.

欧洲委员会关于生物学和医学发展的法律规定无疑构成了最有趣但肯定不是完美的保护人类产前发育阶段的跨国体系。上述制度的优势在于它基于众所周知的、普遍接受的价值观和规则，例如人的尊严及其保护。本文的目的是介绍采用这种系统背后的原因以及后者的后果。

作者认为，欧洲委员会人权体系内部由此发生了一场革命。这场革命导致欧洲委员会人权保护体系的显着扩张，并改变了保护的视角，从纵向转向横向。