Finnish governmental position has been generally positive as to the accept-ability of the major principles of the Convention for the Protection of Human Beings and Dignity of the Human Being with regard to the Application of Biology and Medicine (Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine, European Treaty Series 164/4.IV.1997, belowConvention). Finland signed the Convention among the first one signatories, and the Finnish government aims at the ratification of the Convention by the end of this year 2000, obviously without intending to make any reservation.