Title IV: Medically assisted procreation

Any person conceived by medically assisted procreation with a third party donor may, if they so wish, have access at the age of majority to the identity and non-identifying data of the third party donor as defined in article L. 2143-3. Persons wishing to donate gametes or offer their embryo for reception shall expressly consent in advance to the communication of this data and their identity, under the conditions set…

I.-When obtaining the consent provided for in articles L. 1244-2 and L. 2141-5, the doctor collects the identity of persons wishing to donate gametes or offer their embryo for reception, as well as the following non-identifying data: 1° Their age; 2° Their general condition as they describe it at the time of donation; 3° Their physical characteristics; 4° Their family and professional situation; 5° Their country of birth; 6° The…

The data relating to the third-party donors mentioned in Article L. 2143-3, the data relating to their donations and to the persons born as a result of these donations, as well as the identity of the recipient persons or couples, are kept by the Agence de la biomédecine in a data processing operation for which it is responsible pursuant to 13° of Article L. 1418-1, under conditions strictly guaranteeing their…

Any person who, having reached the age of majority, wishes to have access to non-identifying data relating to the third-party donor or to the identity of the third-party donor shall contact the commission mentioned in Article L. 2143-6.

A commission for access to non-identifying data and the identity of third-party donors is placed under the authority of the Minister for Health. It is responsible for: 1° Granting requests for access to non-identifying data relating to third-party donors in accordance with the procedures defined by the Conseil d’Etat decree issued in application of 3° of article L. 2143-9; 2° Granting requests for access to the identity of third-party donors…

The committee referred to in Article L. 2143-6 is composed of : 1° A member of the judiciary, who shall chair it; 2° A member of the administrative courts; 3° Four representatives of the Minister of Justice and the Ministers for Social Action and Health; 4° Four qualified persons chosen for their knowledge or experience in the field of medically assisted procreation or the human and social sciences; 5° Six…

The Agence de la biomédecine is required to communicate the data referred to in Article L. 2143-3 to the Commission, at the latter’s request, in order to carry out its duties referred to in Article L. 2143-6.

The terms and conditions for the application of this chapter are determined by a decree of the Conseil d’Etat issued after consultation with the Commission nationale de l’informatique et des libertés, in particular: 1° The nature of the non-identifying data mentioned in 1° to 6° of I of article L. 2143-3; 2° The procedures for collecting the identity of children provided for in II of the same article L. 2143-3;…