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

¹ The Fed­er­al Of­fice of Pub­lic Health (FOPH) shall en­sure that the im­pact of the pro­vi­sions of this Act re­lat­ing to the ana­lys­is of the ge­net­ic ma­ter­i­al of em­bry­os in vitro and their se­lec­tion is eval­u­ated.

² The eval­u­ation shall re­late in par­tic­u­lar to:

a.

the com­pat­ib­il­ity of the in­dic­a­tions re­por­ted in ac­cord­ance with Art­icle 11 para­graph 2 let­ter b in re­spect of re­pro­duct­ive tech­niques with ana­lys­is of the ge­net­ic ma­ter­i­al of em­bry­os in or­der to pre­vent trans­mit­ting the pre­dis­pos­i­tion for a ser­i­ous dis­ease on the one hand with the au­thor­isa­tion re­quire­ments in ac­cord­ance with Art­icle 5a para­graph 2 on the oth­er;

b.

the sur­vey of the num­ber of couples and the pro­ced­ures car­ried out as well as the res­ults;

c.

the pro­ced­ures re­lat­ing to en­force­ment and su­per­vi­sion;

d.

the im­pacts on so­ci­ety.

³ The hold­ers of a li­cence in ac­cord­ance with Art­icle 8 para­graph 1 must on re­quest provide the FOPH and the per­son ap­poin­ted to con­duct the eval­u­ation with the data re­quired for the eval­u­ation in an­onymised form.

⁴ The Fed­er­al De­part­ment of Home Af­fairs shall provide the Fed­er­al Coun­cil with a re­port on con­clu­sion of the eval­u­ation and make pro­pos­als for fur­ther ac­tion.