Following the Protector of Citizens’ suggestion, the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Serbia has amended the Rulebook defining in more detail the criteria and terms for donating reproductive cells and embryos, that enabled the members of LGBTI community in our country to be donors.
In mid-2019, the Protector of Citizens requested the Administration for Biomedicine of the Ministry of Health to submit a statement regarding the Rulebook on detailed terms, criteria and manner of selection, testing, and evaluating the donors of reproductive cells and embryos that disabled the LGBTI people to be donors of reproductive cells and embryos.
In October that same year, the Administration for Biomedicine has provided the Protector of Citizens with the draft amendments to the Rulebook who expressed the consent with it and suggested that LGBTI people should be fully enabled to be donors of reproductive cells and embryos.
The suggestion of the Protector of Citizens was incorporated in the new Rulebook on Amendments to the Rulebook on detailed terms, criteria and manner of selection, testing and evaluating the donors of reproductive cells and embryos, which entered into force on 7 April 2021.