Enacted parts

ARTICLE 511-13
(Act no. 94-653 of 29 July 1994 Article 9 Official Journal 30 July 1994; Ordinance no. 2000-916 of 19 September 2000
Article 3 Official Journal of 22 September 2000 in force 1 January 2002)
Conditioning the benefit of a donation of gametes to the designation by the receiving couple of a person who has
voluntarily accepted to make such a donation in favour of a third-party couple in breach of article L. 673-7 of the Public
Health Code is punished by two years' imprisonment and a fine of €30,000. 
ARTICLE 511-14
(Act no. 94-653 of 29 July 1994 Article 9 Official Journal 30 July 1994; Ordinance no. 2000-916 of 19 September 2000
Article 3 Official Journal of 22 September 2000 in force 1 January 2002)
Collecting, handling, preserving or transferring gametes supplied by way of donation without having obtained the
necessary authorisation required by article L. 673-5 of the Public Health Code is punished by two years' imprisonment
and a fine of €30,000.
ARTICLE 511-8-2
(Act no. 98-535 of 1st July 1998 Article 19 Official Journal 2 July 1998; Law no. 2004-800 of 6 August 2004 Article 15 7°
Official Journal of 7 August 2004)
Importing or exporting organs, tissues, cells or cell therapy products in breach of the rules made for the application
of articles L. 1235-1 and L. 1245 of the Public Health Code is punished by five ears' imprisonment and a fine of €30,000.
SECTION III
OF THE PROTECTION OF THE HUMAN EMBRYO
Articles 511-15 to
511-25
ARTICLE 511-15
(Act no. 94-653 of 29 July 1994 Article 9 Official Journal 30 July 1994; Ordinance no. 2000-916 of 19 September 2000
Article 3 Official Journal of 22 September 2000 in force 1 January 2002)
Procuring human embryos in return for any form of payment is punished by seven years' imprisonment and a fine of
€100,000.
The same penalties apply to acting of as an intermediary to facilitate the procuring of human embryos in return for
any form of payment, and the supply, for consideration, of human embryos to third parties.