The Commission proposal deals with a precise research topic, the derivation of stem cells from supernumerary embryos with no parental project. They are frozen as a result of in vitro fertilisation treatment and donated by the parents for research. It is critical to point out that nobody can benefit financially from such activity. The proposal does not aim to create human embryos for the purpose of stem cell procurement including the means of somatic cell nuclear transfer, commonly referred to therapeutic cloning. The creation of human embryos for research is explicitly excluded from the scope of the framework programme funding. The EU will not fund human embryonic research, stem cell research, where it is forbidden by a member state. That applies to us. Human embryonic stem cells can only be derived from supernumerary embryos that are donated for research by parents and that were created, as Senator Henry said, before 27 June 2002, the date of the adoption of the framework programme. These embryos are destined to be destroyed at some point in time.