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The Regulation on Assisted Reproductive Treatment
Applications and Assisted Reproductive Treatment
Centers has Entered into Force
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The Regulation on Assisted Reproductive Treatment Applications and
Assisted Reproductive Treatment Centers (hereinafter referred to as the
“Regulation”) which was drafted by the Ministry of Health was published
in the Official Gazette numbered 27513 and put into force on 06.03.2010.
This regulation stipulates the principles of the procedures in order for
married couples who have reproductive problems and who are deemed
appropriate medically to have a child through the
assisted reproductive
treatment (hereinafter referred to as the “ART”) and stipulates the
procedures and aspects regarding the opening, operation, and auditing of
the centers which will provide this treatment.
As this Regulation has been put into force, the regulation on Assisted
ReproductiveTreatmentApplications dated21.08.1987has been abrogated.
Remarkable regulations that have been newly put into force are as
follows:
Science Commission Shall Be Formed
A science commission will be formed of 20 members headed by the
relevant deputy undersecretary of the Ministry.
This commission will render an opinion on the assessment of the
yearly working inputs of the ART centers, assessment of the pregnancies
and babies resulting from the ART methods in the frame of the health
conditions of the mother and the baby, and on other issues that may be
raised during the application of the regulation and the standards of the
ART methods.
The Centers Which Apply the ART Methods Cannot Be Established
Privately
Pursuant to the new Regulation, the centers which apply the ART
methods can only be established as units within hospitals which have
departments of obstetrics and gynecology, and newborn and adult intensive
care units.
* Article of March 2010