Key Benefits:
DRAFT LAW NO. 151 /X
(REGULATES MEDICALLY ASSISTED PROCREATION TECHNIQUES)
Exhibition of reasons
The infertility of the desirable couples of having children constitutes disease of growing and
widespread incidence, the solution of which is progressively effective in a
society's most liberated society of prejudices, enriched with constant scientific advances
and endowed with differentiated technologies of unusable resolute capacity.
The adoption, as an alternative method for such couples, does not always achieve
to propitiate the results almeted, for reasons known, of amusing amuseoole.
Let us add that our framework of cultural and social values inculcates, with particular
emphasis, the idea of marital procreation as a means of ensuring perenity, not only
of a wide range of axiological references but, also, of a genetic inheritance
jealously preserved.
The pointed conditioners have legitimized the search for solutions
alternatives to achieve a desideratum that the biological mechanisms of reproduction
human cannot, in certain circumstances, provide.
It becomes, therefore, necessary to intervene, in legislative terms, in the construction of a
system that, alongside the necessary investigation of the causes or factors of infertility with
a view to its prevention, and in accordance with the World Organisation's guidelines of
Health, establish concrete measures of strategic performance in the strands of medicine
family, fertility and human reproduction.
The coherent entangment of such a network in the operative model of the care of
maternal health-infantile turns out to make logically indispensable the promulgation of
a legal regime that defines and accompanies the rules of acting in the specific strand of the
medically assisted procreation that will constitute, in this perspective, only the plateau
top of an interventionist escalation in the area of human reproduction.
The absence, in Portugal, of specific legislation in this area has been
object of diversified positions. It has already been stated that no laws will be required
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to treat patients and, on the contrary, has also been invoked the imperious need
of rules and limits, since without law everything is allowed because nothing is out of the law. A
intermediate position could advocate for a normative framework only limited
to the consensual aspects of a problem that continues, increasingly, to be the subject of
polemical lit.
Legislative inertia, regardless of the legal quadrant in which it has
place, it represents by itself a choice of values. Without law, the limits, exception made to the
ethics, morals and individual conscience are only those of the technically possible.
Now, it is not to exclude that socially significant sectors can be, relative
or absolutely, insensitive to imperatives of conscience, because seduced by a
mirorific omnipotency of technical progress and its eventual benesses. If in
each society there are groups that do not conceive of the unethical technique, others there will be for
who the eminently instrumental character of the technique turns out to be absolutized and
erected the category that only to ethics should fit: to be an end in itself.
The non-existence of legislation on medically assisted procreation
still understandable difficulties in the determination of rights and responsibilities of the
various actors in the own acts of each procedure.
The Decree-Law No. 319/86 of September 25, intended to establish the
conditions for authorization of acts required by medically procreation techniques
assisted, which should, however, be defined in regulatory decree. However,
such regulation has never been produced.
The National Council on Ethics for Life Sciences released, in February
of 1993, an extensive report and opinion on medically assisted reproduction
(3 /CNE/93), which came to define the ethical principles that must be implicit in the
medically assisted procreation practices.
Also Law No. 12/93 of April 22 on the harvesting and transplantation of
organs and tissues of human origin, establishes, in Article 1 (2), that " the gift of
eggs and sperm and the transfer and manipulation of embryos are the subject of
special legislation ".
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Subsequently, in 1995, the report and Opinion No 15 /CNEV/95, of the Council
National of Ethics for Life Sciences, came to warn of the urgency of being
produced legislation relating to the human embryo, specifically in such a way as to prevent the
production of embryos for the purpose of scientific research.
This Council has further published the Opinion No 18 /CNECV/97, on protection
legal for biotechnological inventions; n. 21 /CNECV/97, on cloning; n.
22 /CNECV/97, on medical devices for diagnosis in vitro ; n. 25 /CNECV/98,
on therapeutic use of organic products; and n. 31 /CNECV/2000, on the
human genome.
It was considered that it was the case that it was, therefore, to implement measures that acauctiate
principles to which they are underlying issues that have to do with the defence of freedom of the
man and the dignity of the human person, with social solidarity and with the
health intervention and their respective quality requirement of the services provided. Is that,
ultimately, the rapid technological development and the overwhelming progress
scientific will have to be put to the service of humanity and exclusively to their
well.
In that sense it was understood by the then government, in 1997, to present a
proposed law that bridging this important gap in legal planning
Portuguese.
It was then considered that the possible regulation should result from a
adherence of opinions that cautioned the choices, which, however, would not leave
certainly to be the subject of contestation by some. It was considered, then, and
considers itself today that the essential desideratum will have to be achieved in line with
principles, standards and recommendations coming from accredited national institutions and
supra-national and in the uncompromising defence of fundamental principles, among which
they would have to be highlighted the respect for the dignity of the human person, their
inviolability and inalienability. In such a context, it could not yet ignore the
indispensable security that has to merit the human genetic material and the necessary
assurance of technical quality and humanization of the services provided.
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This position remains all the more so as Decree No. 415 /VII (resulting from the
proposed law No 135 /VII) turned out to be the subject of veto by the President of the
Republic.
It is underlined that, following the IV Constitutional Review Process of
1997, Article 26 (2) came to establish the legal guarantee of personal dignity and of the
genetic identity of the human being, notably in the creation, development and
use of technologies and scientific experimentation, in line with new
contributions from the Council of Europe, specifically through the Bioethics Convention,
at the time outstanding consecration in the Portuguese legal order.
It was meanwhile ratified by the Portuguese Parliament to the Convention on the Rights of the
Man and the Biomedicine of the Council of Europe who went on to integrate our
legal planning and which fixes some general principles that frame the performance
in these domains.
Until that fact is evidenced the importance of defining precisely which ones
legally permissible techniques, the conditions under which recourse to such
techniques and which institutions enabled for the purpose.
In short, a normative framework that with effectiveness will have to be established,
prudence and reasonableness fulfill a mission where the facilities do not pontificate.
This being so, they cannot take on fundamentalist positions, but rather there is-
search for always and only what, according to the data of science, dignify the person
human, repudiating what it can avilable and seeking to remove from such an attitude of
spirit the consequences that are considered to be fair, human and even
consents to the feel and values of the national community.
In compliance it is assumed, in the legislative initiative ora present, the defence of the
principles set out below:
a) The different medically assisted procreation techniques that imply
gamitic or embryonic manipulation do not constitute an alternative mode of procreation,
but rather subsidiary method to be used only when there are proven changes
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of the physiological mechanisms of reproduction or when, in the face of medical indications to
the prevention or treatment of genetic, infectious or other diseases;
b) The resource for medically assisted procreation should assure the child
conditions for their full development, particularly the right to benefit from the
family structure, biparental, of the affiliation. Thus, they should only be able to benefit from the techniques
of medically assisted procreation heterosexual couples, with stability of relationship,
not to be in very exceptional situations;
c) Acts required by medically assisted procreation techniques have
compulsorily to be practiced in establishments with proven suitability
technically and scientifically and will have to be the subject of periodic evaluation and control;
d) the confidentiality of acts in respect of the
participants of the medically assisted procreation techniques, may only be
broken secrecy for reasons of reasoned medical order or other equally
ponderous;
e) All the biological product of a genetic nature that is the subject of donation not
you may under no circumstances be traded, nor can you be assigned
any commercial value;
f) It will be mandatory in all acts concerning procreation techniques
medically assisted the express consent, free and enlightened, on the part of the
respective beneficiaries and actors, being guaranteed to the health professionals the
right to the objection of conscience that will have to be spelt out;
g) They should be considered prohibited purposes of procreation techniques
medically assisted those who wish to obtain certain characteristics
birthright genetics, which involve the creation of human clones, of chimeras or the
inter-species fertilization and still replacement motherhood and inseminations post-
mortem , other than in specifically foreseen circumstances conditioned to the
assessment and decision of the National Council for Medically Assisted Reproduction
(CNRMA).
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(h) the legalization of semen conservation units is recommended, once
that the gift of male gametes should not deny each other whenever they assume all the
consequences that may result from such an act by the potential beneficiaries. Only so if
can guarantee the technical quality of the units involved in the process, searching
to avoid, at the same time, an undesirable clandestinity, the eventual discrimination
social and economic and even an intolerable marketing of organic products
humans. It is still the possibility of material interests to be the subject of
quered, as they will not fit donors any powers or duties in
relation to children who come to be born as a result of insemination with semen
donated;
i) The donation of ovocytes, taking into consideration the technical impossibility of
freeze feminine gametes identically to that of male gametes, it should only
be able to check in conditions that effectively guarantee the anonymity of the
actors;
j) The deliberate creation of surplus embryos should not take place in practice
current of medically assisted procreation, so it is recommended that the number of
ovocytes to inseminate in each fecundation cycle in vitro should depend on the number of
embryos to be transferred and also from the concrete clinical-laboratory situation;
l) Poding occurs the creation of embryos that then do not come to be
transferred to the uterus, advocates for its freezing for further transfer to the
beneficiary couple.
Exceptionally, when this transfer cannot be realized and
upon the consent of the beneficiaries, can the embryos be destined for another
couple, whose diagnosis of infertility advises him, or donated for investigation
scientific.
m) The constitution of the National Council of Reproduction Medically is to be established
Assisted for guidance, decision and follow-up in the framework of procreation
medically assisted.
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That being so, and under Article 167 and in accordance with paragraph 1 (b) of the
article 165 of the Constitution of the Portuguese Republic, the Deputies of the Party
Socialist present the following draft law:
Chapter I
General provisions
Article 1.
Subject
The present law comes to regulate the following medically procreation techniques
assisted:
a) artificial insemination;
b) The fertilization in vitro ;
c) Intra-cytoplasmic injection of spermatozoa;
d) The transfer of gametes, zigotos or embryos to the horn;
e) The generic diagnosis pre-implantation;
f) Other laboratory techniques of gamitic or embryonic manipulation
equivalents or subsidiaries.
Article 2.
Condition of admissibility
1-A The use of medically assisted procreation techniques can only
check itself after rigorous diagnosis of infertility, certified by medical team of
to be part of at least two qualified specialists with the minimum of five
years of activity in medical areas linked to human reproduction or approval in
cycle of special studies in medicine of reproduction.
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2-It is, however, lawful to have recourse to medically assisted procreation techniques
with a view to proceeding to the prevention or treatment of genetic source anomalies,
infectious or other.
Article 3.
Authorized centres and qualified persons
1-medically assisted procreation techniques can only be imparted
under the responsibility and direct surveillance of qualified specialist medical practitioner, in
public or private centres expressly authorized for the purpose by the Minister of
Health.
2-The centres referred to in the preceding paragraph shall be subject to evaluation
quality periodical.
Article 4.
Beneficiaries
1-Only married people who do not find themselves judicially separated from
people and goods or goods or separate in fact, or those of different sex living in
conditions analogous to those of the spouses, at least two years ago, may resort to techniques
of medically assisted procreation.
2-The techniques can only be used for the benefit of anyone who has, by the
less, 18 years of age and do not find yourself interstated or disabled by anomaly
psniquica.
3-Without prejudice to the provisions of Article 28, it may only be a beneficiary of techniques
of medically assisted procreation the couple who contribute gametes of at least
one of its members.
Article 5.
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Prohibited purposes
1-The recourse to medically assisted procreation techniques with the
deliberate aim to create identical human beings, specifically by cloning,
or to give rise to chimeras or to intry inter-species fertilization.
2-Without prejudice to the provisions of Article 2 (2), the techniques of procreation
medically assisted may also not be used to achieve certain
characteristics of the unborn child, specifically the choice of sex.
Article 6.
Mother of replacement
1-Understand for replacement motherhood any situation in which the
woman possesses to endure a pregnancy on account of outrage and to deliver the child
after childbirth, renouncing the powers and own duties of motherhood.
2-It is restricted the recourse to replacement maternity, to the appreciation of the
CNRMA.
3-Are void the legal, onerous, maternity care business of replacement.
4-With the exception of cases provided for in paragraph 2, the woman who supports a
pregnancy in replacement of outrain is havida for all legal effects as the mother of the
child who comes to be born.
Article 7.
Use of embryos for research purposes
1-A The use of viable embryos for the purpose of scientific research will only be
permitted with diagnostic or therapeutic targets and will be conditional on the
appreciation and decision of the CNRMA.
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2-Only preimplantation genetic diagnostic techniques will be allowed
recognized scientific value for the diagnosis or therapeutics of genetic diseases or
other.
3-The deliberate creation of embryos for research purposes is prohibited or
scientific experimentation.
Chapter II
Use of medically assisted procreation techniques
Article 8.
Medical decision and conscientiation objection
1-Compete to the responsible doctor to propose to the beneficiaries the technique of
medically assisted procreation that, scientifically, appears more appropriate,
when other treatments have not been successful, do not offer prospects
of success or not to show convenient according to the precepts of knowledge
medical.
2-No health professional can be obliged to superintender or to
collaborate in the realization of any of the medically assisted procreation techniques
whether, for medical or ethical reasons, to understand not the duty to do.
3-A The refusal of the professional should specify the reasons for clinical order or
of another intimate that motivates her, specifically the objection of conscience.
Article 9.
Rights of beneficiaries
They are rights of the beneficiaries:
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a) Not to be subjected to techniques that do not offer reasonable probabilities of
success or whose use behaving significant risks to the health of the mother or child;
b) To be assisted in an elderly medical environment, which possesses of all the
required material and human conditions for the correct execution of the technique
advisable;
c) To be correctly informed about the medical, social and
legal probable of the proposed treatments;
d) Knowing the reasons that motivate the refusal of procreation techniques
medically assisted;
e) To be informed of the conditions under which they would be able to turn to the adoption and
of the social relevance of this institute.
Article 10.
Duties of the beneficiaries
1-It is the duties of the beneficiaries:
a) Pressure all the information that is requested to them by the medical team or
who understand to be relevant to the correct diagnosis of your clinical situation and to the
success of the technique to which they will submit;
b) scrupulously observe all the prescriptions of the medical team, either
during the phase of the diagnosis, either during the different steps of the process of
medically assisted procreation;
2-A The end of being globally evaluated the medical-sanitary results and
psycho-sociological of the medically assisted procreation processes, must the
beneficiaries to provide all information related to health, development
and the insertion into the family medium of the children born of techniques in it.
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Article 11.
Consent
1-The beneficiaries must provide their free, enlightened consent of
express form and, in writing, in the face of the responsible doctor.
2-For the purposes of the provisions of the preceding paragraph, the beneficiaries shall be
previously informed, in writing, of all known benefits and risks
resulting from the use of medically assisted procreation techniques, as well as
of its ethical, social and legal implications.
3-The data referred to in the preceding paragraph shall appear in the document
through which the beneficiaries provide their consent.
4-The consent of the beneficiaries is freely revocable by any
of them until the beginning of the therapeutic processes referred to in Article 1.
Article 12.
Confidentiality
1-All those who, in some way, take notice of the resource a
medically assisted procreation techniques, or the identity of any of the
participants in the respective processes, are obliged not to reveal the identity of the
same and to maintain secrecy of the very act of assisted procreation.
2-People born as a result of procreation processes
medically assisted with feature the gift of gametes or embryos can together with the
competent health services, obtain the information that concerns them, excluding
the identification of the donor.
3-In addition to the provisions of the preceding paragraph, the persons referred to therein will be able to obtain
the information regarding the identification of the donor, for recognized ponderous reasons
by judicial sentence, and may the competent court in family matters of the area of
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stakeout residence can the CNRMA information about existence of
hindrance, under the terms of the Civil Code's 1.602º artwork.
4-For the purpose of the provisions of the preceding paragraphs is not necessary
consent of the donor.
Article 13.
Registration and conservation of data
1-It will be defined, by joint porterie of the relevant Ministers in the areas of
Health and Justice, the way in which the records of relative data should be arranged
to medically assisted procreation processes, their respective beneficiaries, donors and
children born, as well as the conditions and the licensing of the establishments in
that it comes to take place.
2-The same diploma will establish the period of time during which they must
the data being conserved, who will be able to have access to them, and with what purpose, well
as the cases in which constant information of the records can be deleted.
Article 14.
Charges
1-The establishments authorized to provide procreation techniques
medically assisted cannot, in the calculation of the required retribution, assign any
value to the donated genetic material nor to the embryos referred to in Article 21 (4).
2-The recourse to medically assisted procreation techniques in the framework of
National Health Service will be supported under the conditions that are to be defined in
own diploma.
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Chapter III
Artificial insemination
Article 15.
Insemination with donor semen
1-A insemination with semen from a third donor can only check
when, in the face of the objectively available medico-scientific knowledge, no
you can get pregnant through insemination with semen from the husband or from that who
live in de facto union with the woman inseminating.
2-The semen of the donor must be cryopreserved.
3-The situations in which the appeal to the gift of semen and the
requirements required of donors and beneficiaries, as well as the rules of
operation of the Conservation Units of Sémen, will be defined by the Portaria
provided for in Article 13º.
Article 16.
Determination of paternity
1-If the insemination referred to in the preceding article comes to result
birth of a child will be this there been as the son of the husband or of the one who lives in
de facto union with the inseminated woman, provided that this there is consenting to the
insemination, in accordance with Article 11.
2-For the purposes of the provisions of the preceding paragraph shall be displayed, in the act of
record of birth, document proving that the man living in union of
fact with the mother of the child has provided the consent provided for in Article 11.
3-There has been no consent, washing-up of birth only
with established motherhood, in which case the provisions of Articles 1864 do not apply.
a 1866. of the Civil Code.
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4-A The presumption of paternity established pursuant to paragraph 1 may be
impugned by the husband or the one who lives in union de facto if it proves that there was no
consent, or that the child was not born from insemination so that consent was
provided.
Article 17.
Exclusion of paternity from the donor of semen
1-The donor of semen may not be there as a parent of the child who comes to
being born, not having any powers or duties in relation to it.
2-The provisions of the preceding paragraph shall not preclude the admissibility, in proceedings
preliminary of publications, paternity proof for the effects of points (a) and (b) of the
article 1602 of the Civil Code.
Article 18.
Prohibition of insemination post mortem
1-After the death of the husband or of the man with whom he lived in de facto union
it is not lawful to the woman to be inseminated with sperm of the deceased, yet this there is
consented to the act of insemination.
2-The sperm that, with founded fear of future sterility, be collected
for the purposes of insemination of the spouse or woman with whom the man lives in union
de facto will be destroyed if the one comes to be passed down during the period established for the
conservation of semen.
3-It is, however, lycites the implantation post mortem of embryo, to allow the
realization of a parental project clearly established in writing before the
demise of the parent, elapsed that is the deadline considered fit to the appropriate
weighting of the decision.
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Article 19.
Paternity
1-If the violation of the prohibition referred to in the previous article results
pregnancy of the inseminated woman, the child who comes to be born is hained as the daughter of the
deceased.
2-Cesses the provisions of the preceding paragraph if at the date of the insemination, the woman
have contracted marriage or living, for at least two years, in de facto union with
man who, in accordance with Rule 11, gives his consent to such an act, in which case
applies to the provisions of Article 1839 (3) of the Civil Code.
Chapter IV
Fertilization in vitro
Article 20.
General principle
1-In fertilization in vitro there should only be place in the creation of the embryos in
number considered necessary for the success of the process, in accordance with good practice
clinic and the pricipes of informed consent.
2-The number of ovocytes to be inseminated in each process must take into account the
clinical situation of the couple and the general indication of prevention of multiple pregnancies.
Article 21.
Fate of embryos
1-The embryos that, in the terms of the previous number, have not been
transferred must be frozen, committing the beneficiaries to use them in
new embryonic transfer process within the maximum period of three years.
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2-Elapsed the term of three years may the embryos be destined for another
couple whose medical indications of infertility advises him, the facts being
determinants of justifiable registration.
3-The fate of the embryos provided for in the preceding paragraph can only check
upon the consent of the projected beneficiaries, or of what is supervivo,
applying, with the necessary adaptations, the provisions of Article 11 (1).
4-Do not become subject to the provisions of paragraph 1 the embryos whose characterization
morphological does not indicate minimum conditions of viability.
5-The remaining embryos shall apply to the provisions of Article 7º (1).
Article 22.
Fertilization in vitro post mortem
If the one who deposited his / her semen, for the purposes of fertilization for the benefit of the
couple to which they belong, come to fall applies, with the necessary adaptations, what if
has in the matter of insemination post mortem in Articles 18, n. the
1 and 2, and 19.
Article 23º
Fertilization in vitro with dador semen
To fecundation in vitro with recourse to dador semen applies, with due
adaptations, the provisions of articles 15 to 17.
Article 24.
Gift of ovocytes
You can turn to the gift of oviytes when, in the face of medical knowledge-
objectively available scientific, cannot obtain pregnancies through recourse to
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any other technique and provided that effective conditions are ensured to ensure the
anonymity of the actors, dadora and beneficiaries.
Article 25.
Maternity
1-A donor of ovocytes cannot be havid as a mother of the child who comes to
being born, not having any powers or duties in relation to it.
2-The provisions of the preceding paragraph shall not preclude the admissibility, in proceedings
preliminary publications, from the proof of maternity to the effects of points (a) and (b) of the
article 1602 of the Civil Code.
Article 26.
Beneficiaries of embryos
1-Being the embryos intended for another couple in accordance with Article 3 (3)
21., couples who do not have children, natural or adoptive, should be privileged.
2-The recipients of the embryos must not be older than 45 years to
woman and 55 years the man.
3-For the purposes of the determination of motherhood and parenthood is applicable,
with the necessary adaptations, the provisions of articles 16, 17 and 25.
Article 27º
Maternity leave
1 -It may be authorized by the National Board of Reproduction Medically
Assisted, by way of exceptional title, the recourse to replacement motherhood, according to
the criteria to be defined by the Council and when to cumulatively verify the
following conditions:
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a) Treat the only recourse to respond to the concrete situation of
infertility;
b) Serem respected the interests and rights of the couple, of the child to be born
and of the replacement mother, through informed consent of the
gestures and future parents;
c) No remuneration shall be practiced, without prejudice to the compensation
of the expenses incurred, objectively proven.
2-Applies to the replacement maternity, with due adaptations, the provisions of the
articles 15º to 17º.
Article 28.
National Board of Medically Assisted Reproduction
1-It is created the National Board of Medically Assisted Reproduction,
hereinafter referred to as the CNRMA, to which it will compete generically to pronounce on the
ethical, social and legal issues of medically assisted procreation and specifically:
a) Give advice on the public and private establishments authorized to
practice of medically assisted procreation techniques and accompany the respective
activities;
b) Request the information referred to in Article 10 (2), proceed to its
scientific elaboration and evaluate the global medical-sanitary results and
psychossociology of the practice of medically assisted procreation across the territory
national;
c) We collect the information relating to each use of the techniques of
procreation indicated in Article 1, to be required by the physician in charge.
d) Pressure to the judicial organs the information that is requested of it.
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2-A The organization, composition and functioning of the CNRMA are defined
by the Government through joint porterie referred to in Article 13º.
Chapter V
Sanctions
Article 29.
Improper use of medically assisted procreation techniques
1-A The use of medically assisted procreation techniques for the
purposes set out in Article 5, or without the consent of any of the
beneficiaries, provided in the terms provided for in Article 11, constitute a crime punished with
prison sentence of one to five years.
2-A The use of assisted procreation techniques outside establishments
authorized, without knowledge of the doctor responsible or in violation of the legis artis ,
constitutes a crime punished with imprisonment up to three years.
Article 30.
Maternity leave
The promotion, by any means, in particular through direct invitation or
by interposed person or public announcement, from maternity replacement to title
onerous constitutes felony punishment punishable by imprisonment up to three years.
Article 31.
Improper use of embryos
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1-A deliberate creation of embryos for research purposes and implantation
of embryos that have been the subject of experimentation constitutes crime punished with
prison sentence of one to five years.
2-A budding of embryos for purposes or under conditions not permitted by law
constitutes a crime punished with imprisonment for up to two years.
Article 32.
Violation of the duty of secrecy
The violation of anonymity or of the duty of secrecy, provided for in Article 12, constitutes
crime punished with imprisonment for up to two years.
Article 33.
Ancillary sanctions
To those who are convicted of the crimes provided for in the preceding Articles may the
court to apply the following ancillary sanctions:
a) Temporary interdiction of the exercise of the profession, for a period of six months
a two years, or definitive;
(b) definite closure of private establishment where hajam was
practiced the unlawful acts of assisted procreation;
c) Publicity of sentence sentencing.
Chapter VI
Final provisions
Article 34.
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Other medically assisted procreation techniques
1-When the envisaged techniques, in points (c) to g) of the article are used
1. applies:
a) In the case of recourse to semen semen, the provisions of Chapter III, with the
due adaptations;
b) In the case of recourse to donor ovocytes, the provisions of Articles 25º and 26 shall be provided;
c) To the intra-cytoplasmic injection of spermatozoa, transfer of gametes
or embryos for the horn, transfer of embryos to the uterus, prenatal diagnosis
pre-implantation, or any other laboratory techniques of gametic manipulation or
embryonic equivalent or subsidiary, the provisions of Chapter IV, with the necessary
adaptations.
2-A intervention with diagnostic or therapeutic purposes on the pre-embryo
or fetus can only be used to ensure its viability, or detect diseases
hereditary, or to treat a serious illness or prevent its transmission.
Article 35.
Triennial report
The Government, on the basis of the work carried out by the CNRMA provided for in the article
27. shall trienally submit a report to the Assembly of the Republic on the implementation
of this Law and the necessity of its possible amendment.
Article 36.
Regulation
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The Government will promote the publication, within 180 days, of diplomas
indispensable to the development of this Law.
The PS Deputies
A.R. 07/27/2005