The Council of Europe's "Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine" and its "Additional Protocol to the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Dignity of the Human Being with regard to the Application of Biology and Medicine, on the Prohibition of Cloning Human Being" appear to ban SCNT of human beings. Of the Council's 45 member states, the "Convention" has been signed by 31 and ratified by 18. The "Additional Protocol" has been signed by 29 member nations and ratified by 14.