Enacted parts

ARTICLE 511-22
(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; Law no. 2004-800 of 6 August 2004 Article 28 II
12° Official Journal of 7 August 2004) 
Carrying out medically assisted procreations without having obtained the authorisation set out under article L.
2142-1 of the Public Health Code or without complying with the requirements of such an authorisation is punished by
two years' imprisonment and a fine of €30,000.
ARTICLE 511-23
(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; Law no. 2004-800 of 6 August 2004 Article 28 II
13° Official Journal of 7 August 2004) 
Bringing human embryos into a place regulated by the Public Health Code, or removing them from such a place,
without the authorisation required by article L. 2141-9 of the Public Health Code is punished by three years'
imprisonment and a fine of €45,000.
ARTICLE 511-24
(Act no. 94-653 of 29 July 1994 Article 9 Official Journal 30 July 1994; Ordinance no. 2000-916 of 19 September 2000
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PENAL CODE
Article 3 Official Journal of 22 September 2000 in force 1 January 2002)
Carrying out medically assisted procreations for other purposes than those set out under article L. 152-2 of the
Public Health Code is punished by five years' imprisonment and a fine of €75,000.
ARTICLE 511-25
(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;
Law no. 2004-800 of 6 August 2004 Article 28 II 14° Official Journal of 7 August 2004) 
I. Carrying out the activities necessary to implant a human embryo in the circumstances set out by article L. 2141-6
of the Public Health Code:
1° without having previously ensured that the judicial authorisation required by the second paragraph of the
aforesaid article has been obtained;
2° or without being informed of the results of tests to detect infectious illnesses required by the sixth paragraph of
the same article;
3° or outside an establishment authorised in accordance with the provisions of the seventh paragraph of the same
article, 
is punished by two years' imprisonment and a fine of €30,000.
II. The same penalties apply to the disclosure of personal information enabling the identification of both the couple
who have renounced an embryo and the couple who have received it.
SECTION IV
OF OTHER PROVISIONS AND ADDITIONAL PENALTIES APPLICABLE
TO NATURAL PERSONS AND LIABILITY OF LEGAL PERSONS
Articles 511-26 to
511-28