<P> The Belmont Report is a report created by the National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects of Biomedical and Behavioral Research . Its full title is the Belmont Report: Ethical Principles and Guidelines for the Protection of Human Subjects of Research, Report of the National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects of Biomedical and Behavioral Research . </P> <P> The report was issued on 30 September 1978 and published in the Federal Register on 18 April 1979 . The report took its name from the Belmont Conference Center where the document was drafted in part . The Belmont Conference Center, once a part of the Smithsonian Institution, is in Elkridge, Maryland, 10 miles south of Baltimore, and until the end of 2010 was operated by Howard Community College . </P>

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