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

The fol­low­ing pro­vi­sions of the HGTA¹⁶ ap­ply mu­tatis mutandis to as­sisted re­pro­duct­ive tech­niques with the ana­lys­is of the ge­net­ic ma­ter­i­al of re­pro­duct­ive cells or em­bry­os in vitro:

a.

with re­gard to the right to in­form­a­tion and the right not to know ge­net­ic data: Art­icles 7 and 8 HGTA;

b.

with re­gard to avoid­ing an ex­cess of in­form­a­tion when con­duct­ing ana­lyses: Art­icle 9 HGTA;

c.

with re­gard to pro­tect­ing samples and ge­net­ic data, the dur­a­tion of their re­ten­tion and their use for a dif­fer­ent pur­pose: Art­icles 10–12 HGTA;

d.

with re­gard to hand­ling ge­net­ic data in re­la­tion to em­ploy­ment and in­sur­ance and in li­ab­il­ity cases: Art­icles 39 let­ter b, 43 para­graph 3 and 45 HGTA.