[Documentation and biolaw: achievements and perspectives].

Law is more and more implicated in bioethical issues, as demonstrated by the creation of the word "biolaw". One of the most evident aspects of this discipline lies in the extensive production of documents of different kind and provenance (national laws, EU and international regulations). Hence the necessity and interest of collecting this material, for the purpose of facilitating researches on one or more biolaw issues. For this reason a Centre of Biolaw Documentation has been created by the Catholic University of the Holy Hearth, Institute of Bioethics, Rome, Italy. It has the purpose of collecting and cataloguing legal documents, of every kind and geographical provenance, concerning various bioethical issues.