- Title of the law: Lagen (2006:351) om genetisk integritet (The Act on Genetic Integrity)
- Date of adoption and entry into force: Adopted 18/5/2006 and entered into force 1/7/2006.
- Published in: Svensk Författningssamling, SFS
Amendments in the law will enter into force on April 1st 2016, allowing single females to be fertilized by assisted reproduction. The egg cell must be the single female’s own gametes.
The questions about the requirement of a) a genetic link between one of the parents and the child, and b) whether altruistic surrogacy, if any, should be allowed, were recently assessed. The government inquiry “Olika vägar till föräldraskap (SOU 2016:11)” has in a publication on the 24th February 2016 proposed to remove the requirement of a genetic link between the child and one of the parents but to not allow surrogacy.