1. Performance Legal Framework
2. Single Listing of Administrative Regulations of the Secretariat of Health
3. Bioethics Code for Health Personnel
4. Conduct Code for Health Personnel
5. Ethics Code for Public servants
6. Rights of the Physicians
7. Rights of the Patients
8. Clinical Official Record Norm
9. CONBIOÉTICA Creation Decree
10. Bill of law that adds article 41-bis to the General Health Law, to incorporate the obligation of being present in the public sector hospitals
11. General Health Law
12. Committees Record
13. Regulations for Research
14. General Health Law Regulations on Health Care Services Provision
15. Resolution for the modification of the Mexican Official Standard Nom-168-SSA1-1998, of the clinical record
16. Presidential Decree that adds article 41 Bis and reforms article 98 (O.J.F. on December 14, 2011)
17. Agreement through which General Provisions for the Integration and Functioning of Hospital Bioethics Committees are issued and the assignment of Hospital Units that should incorporate them, pursuant to the criteria established by the National Bioethics Commission, (O.J.F. on October 31, 2012).
18. Agreement through which General Provisions for the integration and functioning of the Ethics Research Committees are issued and the assignment of Hospital Units that should incorporate them, pursuant to the criteria established by the National Bioethics Commission, (O.J.F. on October 31, 2012).
19. National Guidelines for the integration and functioning of the Hospital Bioethics Committees, 3rd. Edition, 2012.
20. National Guidelines for the integration and functioning of the Research Ethics Committees, 3rd. Edition, 2012.

General Health Law Reform*

1. The reform contemplates the mandatory nature of establishments dedicated to health care of the public, social or private sector that form the National Health System to incorporate Hospital Bioethics Committees and Research Ethics Committees.;

2. It is specified that both committees must be interdisciplinary, and must be integrated by medical personnel of different specialties, people of diverse professions and should include society representatives in terms of health services users or participants in studies or research projects.
3. Besides from being trained on bioethics, the members of the committees must be balanced in terms of gender, and they may be able to be attached or not to the health unit or establishment.
4. Their performance will comply with the current legislation and the criteria established by the National Bioethics Commission, therefore the creation of:
   1. General Provisions for the Integration and Functioning of the CHB (Hospital Bioethics Committees) and the REC (Research Ethics Committees) (O.J.F. 10/31/2012) which establish the general guidelines for implementation and operation, as well as the obligatory nature of the register of the CHB and the favorable ruling of the REC.
   2. National Guidelines for the Integration and Functioning of the Hospital Bioethics Committees and Ethics Research Committees (2012 updating), same that constitute support instruments of normative nature for the integration, register and functioning of committees
   3. Establishment of on-line Register of Commissions and Committees

*Addition Decree of article 41 bis and reform to article 98 of the General Health Law (O.J.F 12/14/2011)