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"Mr President, the mechanisms and systems for the donation of tissues and cells are, just like health care, within the jurisdiction of Member States. This is one of the reasons why tissue and cell donation mechanisms vary between countries. They do not always correspond to Article 3 paragraph 2 subparagraph (c) of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, which prohibits making the human body and its parts a source of financial gain. Legal measures applied in some Member States, which allow relatives to be paid for consenting to the donation of a deceased family member’s tissues and cells, are in clear conflict with this ethical principle.
It is therefore important that only voluntary and unpaid donations are considered legitimate in the EU, based on an active statement of consent from the potential donor. Exploitation of the human body and its parts for commercial purposes will be prevented only by correct and transparent rules for the voluntary and unpaid donation of tissues and cells under public control, breaches of which will be penalised under criminal law. It is therefore our duty to demand that all EU states proceed in this way."@en1
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