Part One: General health protection

I – The removal of organs from a living person who donates them may only be carried out in the direct therapeutic interest of a recipient. The donor must be the father or mother of the recipient. Notwithstanding the first paragraph of this I, the following persons may be authorised to donate an organ in the direct therapeutic interest of a recipient: the recipient’s spouse, brothers or sisters, sons or…

No organs may be removed for donation from a living minor or from a living adult who is the subject of a legal protection measure with representation of the person.

The committee of experts whose intervention is provided for in articles L. 1231-1, L. 1241-3 and L. 1241-4 sits in two panels of five members appointed for three years by order of the Minister for Health. Three of these members, including two doctors and a person qualified in the human and social sciences, are common to both panels. When the committee gives an opinion on samples taken from adults as…

The terms and conditions for the application of this chapter shall be determined by decree of the Conseil d’Etat, in particular: 1° The provisions applicable to cross-organ donation, including the terms and conditions for informing donors and recipients involved in cross-organ donation; 2° The operating conditions of the committee mentioned in article L. 1231-3.