Research Centre for Public Policy and Regulatory Governance, University of Silesia in Katowice, 11b Bankowa str, 40-007, Katowice, Poland.
J Bioeth Inq. 2021 Sep;18(3):525-534. doi: 10.1007/s11673-021-10111-5. Epub 2021 Jul 20.
Committees established for the ethical review of research involving animals have become a widespread legal standard around the world. Despite many differences in their composition, powers, and institutional settings, they share many common problems related to the well-established standards of procedural justice in administrative practice. The paper adapts the general theory of procedural justice to the specific context of ethical review committees. From this perspective, the main concerns over the procedural aspects of the ethical evaluation of research projects are identified and examined. They include in particular the standards of the committees' composition, impartiality, fair hearing, appeal, transparency, and benevolence. Their proper reflection in the regulatory regimes of animal ethics committees is necessary to secure the standards of fairness of the ethical review itself. This, in turn, is a condition of the moral and social legitimacy of all administrative and quasi-administrative procedures, including the committees' operations (irrespective of whether they are legally entrusted with the task of authorizing or only evaluating research projects).
为涉及动物的研究进行伦理审查而设立的委员会已成为世界各地广泛采用的法律标准。尽管它们在组成、权力和机构设置上存在许多差异，但都存在许多与行政实践中程序正义既定标准有关的共同问题。本文将程序正义的一般理论适用于伦理审查委员会的具体情况。从这个角度来看，确定并研究了伦理审查委员会程序方面的主要关注点。其中特别包括委员会组成、公正性、公平听证、申诉、透明度和宽厚的标准。在动物伦理委员会的监管制度中适当反映这些标准，对于确保伦理审查本身的公正性标准是必要的。而这反过来又是所有行政和准行政程序（包括委员会的运作，无论其是否依法被赋予授权或仅评估研究项目的任务）的道德和社会合法性的条件。
