Federal Act
on Medically Assisted Reproduction
(Reproductive Medicine Act, RMA)

¹ Once the child has reached 18 years of age, he or she may re­quest in­form­a­tion from the Fed­er­al Of­fice about the donor’s phys­ic­al ap­pear­ance and per­son­al data (Art. 24 para. 2 lets. a and d).

² In ad­di­tion, the child may at any time re­quest in­form­a­tion on all the data re­lat­ing to the donor (Art. 24 para. 2) if he or she has a le­git­im­ate in­terest in ob­tain­ing it.

³ Be­fore the Fed­er­al Of­fice dis­closes per­son­al data, it shall in­form the donor if pos­sible. If the donor does not wish to have per­son­al con­tact, then the child must be in­formed and made aware of the donor’s rights of pri­vacy and his fam­ily’s en­ti­tle­ment to pro­tec­tion. If the child in­sists on his or her right to ob­tain in­form­a­tion un­der para­graph 1, the in­form­a­tion shall be provided.

⁴ The Fed­er­al Coun­cil may as­sign re­spons­ib­il­ity for hand­ling re­quests for in­form­a­tion to a spe­cial­ised fed­er­al com­mis­sion.

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