A medical establishment which provides a woman with artificial insemination by donor treatment or egg or embryo donation treatment, must keep records of the identity and, within reason, whereabouts of the donor.
Civil Code
2015 English source edition · Current applicability not established.
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Article 683
Artificial Procreation · Preserved transcription; page attribution imported from the source collection. Verify against the original.
The medical establishment shall have a duty to inform upon request any child born as a result of artificial insemination by donor or egg or embryo donation, when such child attains the age of majority, that the child is born as the result thereof and to advise such child of his right to be informed of the donor’s identity and whereabouts.
Disclosure of information referred to in sub-Article (2) may only be refused if disclosure would result in serious harm to the child or another person.