of May 11, 2002 No. ZR-324
About organ transplantation and (or) tissues of the person
This Law establishes the legal basis of organ transplantation and (or) tissues of the person, the right and obligation of the donor, recipient and medical institutions, and also governs the relations connected with transplantation.
Provisions of this Law do not extend to bodies, their parts and fabric concerning process of reproduction of the person (ovum, ovaries, testicles, sperm, embryos) and also to blood and its components.
In this Law the following basic concepts are used:
transplantation - substitution of the fabrics or bodies which are absent or damaged owing to pathological process by own or taken from other organism fabrics or bodies;
fabric - community of the created cages and the extracellular material combined by unity of origin, structure and functions;
body - the part of body which is consisting of different fabrics (one of which main) and having certain form, differing in the accurate structure, the certain place taken in organism and life activity;
brain death - the complete and irreversible cessation of life activity of brain which is stated in the conditions of the working heart and artificial ventilation of lungs;
the living donor of bodies and (or) tissues of the person - the physical person which is voluntarily providing in the procedure established by this Law the bodies and (or) fabrics for the purposes of transplantation;
the cadaveric donor of bodies and (or) tissues of the person - corpse of the person from which bodies and (or) fabrics after death of brain and ascertaining of the fact of death are withdrawn, and also after biological death, according to the procedure established by authorized body of public administration in the field of health care (daleeupolnomochenny body);
the recipient - physical person to which in the medical purposes there shall be transplanted organs and (or) fabrics;
the transplanted bodies - bodies, fabrics or their parts of the living or cadaveric donor which can be used for the purpose of transplantation;
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