Drafting and Signing of Information and Coordination Documents

According to the current legislation of Georgia or Ukraine (as well as according to many other countries legislation), the Executor undertakes to timely provide the Consumer with necessary and truthful information about services the Executor offers.

The main task of this activity is not only to provide a competent choice of services but also to prevent unfavorable legal consequences in the future. Only having received complete and truthful information about peculiarities and consumer properties (essence, efficiency, risks and complications) of reproductive programs as well as about concurrent services in accessible way, the Consumer (the Client) gives consent to their application.

In fact, information protocol and consent to treatment are confirmed by specific documents, which in literature are often referred to as “information and coordination documents” or “medico-legal documents”. Within the sphere of reproductive technologies these documents include:

information protocol;
written consents to treatment;
statements;
statements of obligation, etc.

These and similar documents have a number of peculiarities. Moreover, samples of certain statements are approved as standard forms by the decrees of the Ministry of Health Care of Ukraine. When processing these documents for Customers, our lawyers take all these aspects into consideration.

The following information and coordination documents are often requested by our clients:

information protocols about peculiarities of ART programs;
consents to treatment on different ART programs;
written consent of clients (Biological and Intended Parents) to carriage of an embryo, conceived by means of in vitro fertilization, by a Surrogate;
written consent of a Donor to providing and usage of her/his biological (genetic) material – gametes;
written consent of a Surrogate to carriage of an embryo of Intended Parents;
written consent of a Surrogate to carry an embryo of Biological (Intended) Parents;
statement of a Surrogate/Donor about absence of claims towards Intended Parents after completion of surrogacy/donation programs (certified by a notary);
written consent of a Surrogate to registration Biological (Intended) Parents as parent of a born child in the Vital Registration Office (certified by a notary), etc.