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{{Country
|name=Spain
|image_flag=Spain_flag_300.png
|Region=Europe
|Population=45,200,737
|GDP=1,438,959
|Eggs for assisted reproduction=commercial allowed
|Eggs for research=commercial allowed
|Inheritable genetic modification=PROHIBITED
|Preimplantation genetic diagnosis=social uses prohibited
|Reproductive cloning=PROHIBITED
|Research cloning=regulated
|Sex selection=social uses prohibited
|Surrogacy=unrecognized
|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
|Key laws and policies=* Law on Assisted Human Reproduction Techniques, No. 14/2006 (May 26, 2006)
* Biomedicine Law (2007)
* Law on Human Tissue (1983)
|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
The 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>Global Lawyers and Physicians for Human Rights, [http://www.glphr.org/genetic/europe2-7.htm Database of Global Policies on Human Cloning and Germ-line engineering] (Last updated February 7, 2005)</ref>
Under the Law on Assisted Human Reproduction Techniques, surrogacy contracts are explicitly unrecognized, and birthrights are granted to the birthmother.
|Permitted and regulated practices=Research cloning is permitted, but projects must be approved.
|History=Research cloning was approved in cabinet in by parliament in June 2006, and the first project approved in January 2008.<ref>"[http://www.typicallyspanish.com/news/publish/article_6368.shtml Cabinet approves therapeutuc cloning in Spain  ]," typicallyspanish.com (September 17, 2006)</ref><ref>"[http://www.typicallyspanish.com/news/publish/article_14759.shtml  Spain gives go ahead to research using therapeutic cloning ]," typicallyspanish.com (January 24, 2008 )</ref>
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