Federal Act on Medically Assisted Reproduction

¹Any per­son who uses an as­sisted re­pro­duct­ive tech­nique without the con­sent of the per­son from whom the re­pro­duct­ive cells are ob­tained or of the couple be­ing treated shall be li­able to a cus­todi­al sen­tence not ex­ceed­ing three years or to a mon­et­ary pen­alty.

²The same pen­alty shall ap­ply to any per­son who, act­ing without a li­cence or hav­ing ob­tained a li­cence by fraud­u­lent means, uses as­sisted re­pro­duct­ive tech­niques or pre­serves or sup­plies re­pro­duct­ive cells, im­preg­nated ova or em­bry­os in vitro or ar­ranges ana­lyses of the ge­net­ic ma­ter­i­al of em­bry­os in vitro.