Overview
- Decree 893/2025 was published in the Official Gazette with signatures from President Javier Milei and Health Minister Mario Lugones, creating the new commission and repealing the 1998 framework.
- Housed in the Ministry of Health, the commission’s core mission is to advise the Executive and other state bodies on bioethics with an emphasis on human dignity and the right to health.
- Assigned functions include ethical evaluation of research involving human participants, accreditation tasks, advisory work on clinical care and technology adoption, and national coordination.
- A Federal Advisory Council on Research Ethics is created to bring in provincial and Buenos Aires City representatives and to accredit Institutional Research Ethics Committees where local accreditation is absent.
- Governance features the health minister as chair, six principal members and three alternates serving ad honorem for four-year renewable terms, with transparent selection procedures and pending administrative steps to launch operations.