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Article R1241-3 of the French Public Health Code

I.- In compliance with the requirements set out in Article L. 1211-2, any person of legal age who agrees to the removal or collection of tissues or cells shall receive, prior to consenting to the donation or not objecting to the use of these tissues or cells when they have been removed during surgery carried out in his or her interest, information on the purposes, procedures and consequences of this…

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Article R1241-3-2 of the French Public Health Code

Skin may only be removed from a living donor if the following three conditions are met: -the harvest is carried out, in the absence of an available therapeutic alternative, for the treatment of extensive burns or lesions of a necrotising nature threatening the vital prognosis of the recipient; -the donation is carried out either on the recipient’s homozygous twin or, where the recipient has previously received a haematopoietic stem cell…

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Article R1241-4 of the French Public Health Code

When a person wishes to have haematopoietic cells collected from bone marrow or peripheral blood, he/she expresses his/her consent before the president of the judicial court or his/her delegate under the conditions defined in articles R. 1231-2 and R. 1231-3. In the event of a life-threatening emergency, consent is obtained by the public prosecutor under the conditions defined in article R. 1231-4. These provisions apply to a protected adult who…

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Article R1241-5 of the French Public Health Code

When the donor of haematopoietic cells taken from bone marrow or peripheral blood is the subject of a legal protection measure with representation relating to the person, the information given to the protected adult mentioned in article R. 1241-3 is also given to the person in charge of the protection measure or to the ad hoc administrator appointed by the guardianship judge under the conditions provided for in the third…

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Article R1241-6 of the French Public Health Code

The person who is the subject of a legal protection measure with representation in relation to the person or the person responsible for his or her protection measure submits a simple request to the guardianship judge. The application shall state whether the protected person is able to consent to the removal of the sample. Notwithstanding article 1211 of the Code of Civil Procedure, the application may be submitted to the…

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Article R1241-7 of the French Public Health Code

I.-If the guardianship judge considers, after hearing the protected person, that the latter is able to consent to the taking of the sample, he/she shall obtain his/her consent under the conditions defined in article R. 1231-3. The record of the act is kept at the court registry and a copy is sent to the protected person and to the person responsible for this measure. II – The protected person who…

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Article R1241-8 of the French Public Health Code

If the guardianship judge considers that the protected person does not have the capacity to consent to the donation, he shall refer the matter by any means to the committee of experts referred to in article L. 1231-3 so that it can give its opinion on the request. The committee of experts shall hear the donor in the presence of the person responsible for the protective measure or, where applicable,…

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