The legal regime for donated reproductive material
The article aims to reveal the legal regime for donated reproductive material in the Russian Federation. Currently, anonymous and non-anonymous reproductive donation is actively used in the application of methods of assisted reproductive technology for the treatment for infertility. The article makes an attempt to carry out an analysis of the main theoretical approaches to the definition of the legal nature of gametal cells (reproductive material) in the Russian Federation. Having analysed the legal framework for such activities and considered the views of a number of Russian scholars, the author of the article concludes that reproductive material can be an object of property rights after its separation from a human body and points out the need for determining who and from what moment becomes the owner of reproductive material (donor, patient or medical institution) and whether the persons involved in the creation of the embryo, who provided the genetic material, have the right to it. Recognising the special legal regime for reproductive material and viewing it as a group of biological objects are regarded as a necessary condition for the legalisation of the transfer of reproductive material by a donor to a medical organisation and its further use within the framework of in vitro fertilisation.