Section 8: Age conditions for medically assisted procreation and self-preservation of gametes

The age conditions required by article L. 2141-2 to benefit from the removal or collection of gametes, with a view to medically assisted procreation, are set as follows: 1° Oocytes may be retrieved from a person until their forty-third birthday; 2° Sperm may be retrieved from a person until their sixtieth birthday. These provisions apply to the removal or collection of gametes or germ tissue carried out in application of…

The age conditions required by Article L. 2141-12 to benefit from gamete self-preservation with a view to subsequent medically assisted procreation are set as follows: 1° Oocytes may be retrieved from a person from their twenty-ninth birthday until their thirty-seventh birthday; 2° Sperm may be collected from a person from their twenty-ninth birthday until their forty-fifth birthday.

Artificial insemination, the use of gametes or germ tissue collected, retrieved or preserved for the purposes of medically assisted procreation in application of articles L. 2141-2, L. 2141-11 and L. 2141-12, as well as the embryo transfer referred to in article L. 2141-1, may be carried out: 1° Up to her forty-fifth birthday in the woman, unmarried or within the couple, who is intended to bear the child; 2° Until…