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"Mr President, I am pleased to be here tonight in order to correct some of the misunderstandings regarding this question.
UK policy does not allow any financial inducements for egg donation. Clinics can give donors compensation of GBP 15 – about EUR 20 – plus expenses for donations. Those rules apply both to donors in the United Kingdom and to donors supplying anyone in the United Kingdom. That is the first clarification.
Second, I should like to clear up the issue raised in the original question about payments of GBP 1 000. There is currently a debate in the UK about the shortage of egg and sperm donations, particularly now that we are discussing a new law giving children born of such donations the right to know their parents. We believe there will be a shortage of eggs and sperm. So people are talking about how to correct that shortage and some people have talked about GBP 1 000, but that has not been agreed and it is not UK policy.
There is indeed a clinic in Romania that supplies the UK market. Concerns were raised with the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority in the UK, which is independent. It investigated those concerns, went to Romania, spoke to women and looked at the issues. It found that there were some concerns about consent forms. Those forms have now been changed. It found no evidence of any payments that were not authorised. However, it is continuing to scrutinise what is happening in Romania. At one point it actually stopped the egg cells coming into the UK. It is monitoring the situation all the time.
There are some questions to be raised in this regard. I do not think we want a market in human eggs and other human tissues. I support the EU directive's reference to voluntary and altruistic donations. Yet we should consider how we are going to deal with people who donate across international borders. We have the capacity to regulate this in our EU countries. That is not the case in other countries that do not have that regulatory capacity.
I hope that the Commissioner will work with the WHO on these issues and look at them again to ensure that we find answers to the concerns of Members."@en1
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