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

¹ Any per­son who ge­net­ic­ally mod­i­fies a germline cell or an em­bryon­ic cell shall be li­able to a cus­todi­al sen­tence not ex­ceed­ing three years or to a mon­et­ary pen­alty.⁵⁵

² The same pen­alty shall ap­ply to any per­son who uses a ge­net­ic­ally mod­i­fied re­pro­duct­ive cell for im­preg­na­tion or uses a sim­il­arly mod­i­fied im­preg­nated ovum for fur­ther de­vel­op­ment in­to an em­bryo.

³ Para­graph 1 does not ap­ply if the modi­fic­a­tion of germline cells is an un­avoid­able con­com­it­ant ef­fect of chemo­ther­apy, ra­dio­ther­apy or an­oth­er med­ic­al treat­ment that a per­son is un­der­go­ing.