France

Legal status	PERMISSIVE WITH RESTRICTIONS
Key organization	National Consultative Bioethics Committee for Health and Life Sciences (CCNE)
Policy	hESC research using IVF embryos of up to 8 days is allowed, providing that the medical rationale is well founded, no other means are suitable to research the issue and informed consent is obtained. hESC imports are authorised. Cloning is prohibited.
Legislation	LOI nº2011-814 du 7 julliet 2011 relative a la Bioethique
Legislation Link	Act 2011-814 on Bioethics (2011)
Embryonic stem cell research policy	Only allowed in exceptional cases and only with surplus embryos.
Research with embryo	Only allowed in exceptional cases and only with surplus embryos.
Embryo donation and cryopreservation	Embryo and gametes donation is allowed
Somatic cell nuclear transfer	SCNT is forbidden

Provider

• Hopital Europeen Georges Pompidou
• Imagine Institute
• INSERM
• INSERM - Institute for Regenerative Medecine and Biotherapy
• INSERM - Ontogeny of primordial germ cells
• INSERM - PrimaStem
• Inserm: Instute for Neurosciences of Montpellier
• INSTITUT DE LA VISION
• PHENOCELL
• Université Paris-Sud 11
• Université Paris-Sud 11 - ESTeam Paris Sud
• University Hospital of Montpellier

hESC Cell lines

• UPSFRe001-A
• UHOMe001-A
• INSRMe001-A
• INSRMe002-A
• INSRMe003-A
• INSRMe004-A
• INSRMe005-A
• INSRMe006-A
• INSRMe007-A
• INSRMe008-A
• INSRMe009-A
• INSRMe010-A
• INSRMe011-A
• INSRMe012-A
• INSRMe013-A
• INSRMe014-A
• INSRMe015-A
• INSRMe016-A
• INSRMe017-A
• INSRMe018-A
• UPSFRe002-A
• UPSFRe003-A

hiPSC Cell lines

• UPSFRi001-A
• UPSFRi002-A
• UPSFRi004-A
• UPSFRi005-A
• UPSFRi005-A-1
• UPSFRi006-A
• UPSFRi007-A
• UPSFRi008-A
• UPSFRi009-A
• IRMBi001-A
• IRMBi002-A
• IDVi001-A
• IDVi002-A
• UPSFRi004-A-1
• UHOMi001-A
• PCIi001-A
• PCIi002-A
• PCIi003-A
• PCIi004-A
• PCIi005-A