MADRID, Sept. 15 (Xinhua) -- Spain's cabinet has approved a plan for a new law on therapeutic cloning, a project which now moves to the country's legislature for further consideration, Spanish Health Minister Elena Salgado told media on Friday.

Once passed, the cabinet project will be known as the Biomedical Investigation Law, which will ban specific cloning of embryos for research, but will allow scientists to transfer nuclear material to oocytes -- unfertilized human eggs.

The minister said the law, in order to encourage the research, has a maximum of legal guarantees for the rights of people who could be affected.

The cabinet also agreed to set up a supervisory body: the Bioethics Committee, with 11 experts chosen by the ministers and the Autonomous Communities, Spain's regional governments.

Britain, Sweden and Belgium are among the European Union nations that have already approved this kind of research. Enditem