Changes were necessary, he said, as, "the existing legislation does not meet the legitimate concerns expressed by people who are gravely and incurably ill".
A 2005 law already authorizes doctors to administer painkilling drugs at levels they know will, as a secondary effect, shorten a patient's life.
"However, the law can offer no solution to certain cases of prolonged agony or to psychological and/or physical pain that, despite the means employed, remain uncontrollable," said the council.
In these rare cases, the patient should be allowed to be administered "suitable, deep and terminal sedation", it said.
A report recently handed to the council found that there was widespread dissatisfaction among terminally ill patients and their families over a "cure at all costs" culture in the medical establishment.
It had called for doctors to be allowed to take moves to hasten death for terminal patients in three specific sets of circumstances.
In the first case, the patient issues an explicit request or gives advance instructions in the event of him or her becoming incapable of expressing an opinion.
The second case envisages medical teams withdrawing treatment following a request by the family of a dying and unconscious patient.
The third would apply to cases where treatment is serving only to sustain life artificially.
The author of the report, Professor Didier Sicard, stressed that he did not support any measures which "suddenly and prematurely end life".
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