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{{Country
|name=Spain
|image_flag=Spain_flag_300.png
|Region=Europe
|Population=45200737
|GDP=1438959
|Eggs for assisted reproduction=commercial prohibited
|Eggs for research=commercial allowed
|Inheritable genetic modification=PROHIBITED
|Preimplantation genetic diagnosis=social uses prohibited
|Reproductive cloning=PROHIBITED
|Research cloning=regulated
|Sex selection=?
|Surrogacy=PROHIBITED
|European Union=Member
|Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development=Member
|Council of Europe=Member
|1997 COE Biomedicine Convention=RATIFIED
|1998 COE Cloning Convention=RATIFIED
|2005 UN Cloning Vote=no
|2005 UNESCO Sports Doping Convention=RATIFIED
|Treaty of Lisbon=signed
|Introduction=
|Key laws and policies=* Law on Assisted Human Reproduction Techniques, No. 14/2006 (May 26, 2006), available at http://www.boe.es/buscar/doc.php?id=BOE-A-2006-9292

* Biomedicine Law (2007), available at http://www.boe.es/boe/dias/2007/07/04/pdfs/A28826-28848.pdf

* Law on Human Tissue (1983)
|Foundational values=
|Prohibited practices=The following practices are prohibited:
* Reproductive cloning
* Parthenogenesis (stimulating the development of an egg without fertilization by sperm, by solely feminine descent)
* Sex selection
* Inheritable genetic modification
* Fertilizing an egg for any purpose other than reproduction


'''Genetic Modification'''

Law No. 35/1988 establishes that “any therapeutic intervention, investigation or research activity in pre-embryos in vitro, pre-embryos, embryos and fetuses in utero, will be authorized only if such intervention or activity does not alter its genetic make-up (in so far as it does not contain any anomaly), or if it is not aimed to individual or race selection.”<ref>Wheat, Kathryn and Kirstin Matthews, "[http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~neal/stemcell/World.pdf World Human Cloning Policies.]"</ref>


'''Surrogacy'''

* The Law on Assisted Human Reproduction Techniques provides that surrogacy contracts are explicitly unrecognized, and birthrights are granted to the birthmother (Art. 10).
* The Criminal Code may also impose sanctions.
|Permitted and regulated practices='''Assisted Reproduction'''

* Is permitted and practiced


'''Donation of Gametes'''

According to Art. 6 of the Law on Assisted Human Reproduction Techniques, the donation of gametes:
* Is permitted but must not be commercial
* Is anonymous
* Is limited to 6 children borne of the same donor
* Offspring have a right to general information about the donor, but not identity.


'''Posthumous Use of Gametes'''

* Is permitted up to 12 months after death, with consent

 
'''Research Cloning'''

* Research cloning is permitted, but projects must be approved.
|Regulatory activities=
|Accountability and governance=
|History='''Research Cloning'''

Research cloning was approved in cabinet by parliament in June 2006, and the first project approved in January 2008.<ref>"[http://www.typicallyspanish.com/spain-archive/national/Cabinet_approves_therapeutuc_cloning_in_Spain_6368.shtml Cabinet approves therapeutic cloning in Spain]," typicallyspanish.com, (September 17, 2006).</ref><ref>"[http://www.typicallyspanish.com/spain-archive/national/Spain_gives_go_ahead_to_research_using_ther.shtml  Spain gives go ahead to research using therapeutic cloning]," typicallyspanish.com, (January 24, 2008).</ref>
|External links=
}}
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