Additional Protocol to the Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine concerning Transplantation of Organs and Tissues of Human Origin

Parties with reservations, declarations and objections

Party	Reservations / Declarations	Objections
Switzerland	Yes	No

Switzerland

10-11-2009

Switzerland declares that Article 9 of the Protocol applies subject to Article 12 of the law of 8 October 2004 on transplantation, which does not provide for the principle of subsidiarity of a removal on a living person.
Switzerland declares that Article 10 of the Protocol applies subject to Article 12 of the law of 8 October 2004 on transplantation, which does not require a close personal relationship between the donor and the recipient or, in the absence of such relationship, the approval of an independent body.
Switzerland declares that Article 14, paragraph 2, sub-paragraph ii, of the Protocol is applicable subject to Article 13, paragraph 2, lit. d, of the law of 8 October 2004 on transplantation, which authorises, as an exception to the rule, the removal of tissues or cells which regenerate, also when the recipient is the father, the mother or a child of the donor.