Only medical biology laboratories authorised for the activities mentioned in c and d of 2° of article R. 2142-1 may store gametes for donation.
If the laboratory, under whose responsibility consent was obtained under the conditions set out in article R. 2141-20, is not authorised to store gametes for donation, it shall hand them over to an authorised centre. It shall also send the centre a copy of the file of the person concerned, under conditions designed to guarantee the confidentiality of the information contained therein.
The anonymisation of the donor’s file and the allocation of the unique European code are carried out by the centre authorised to store gametes for donation.