15. Endorses measures which aim at protecting living donors and ensuring that organ donation is made altruistically and voluntarily, without any payment other than compensation which is strictly limited to making good the expenses incurred in donating an organ, such as travel expenses, childminding costs, loss of earnings or recovery costs, prohibiting any financial incentives or disadvantages for a potential donor; urges Member States to define the conditions under which compensation may be granted;

13. Endorses measures which aim at protecting living donors and ensuring that organ donation is made altruistically and voluntarily, without any payment other than compensation which is strictly limited to making good the expenses incurred in donating an organ, such as travel expenses, childminding costs, loss of earnings or recovery costs, prohibiting any financial incentives or disadvantages for a potential donor; urges Member States to define the conditions under which compensation may be granted;

Most patients, specially children or people, who are very sensitive, require large pools of donors to find a suitable match.

However, since large western toy manufacturers and buyers still dominate the market, it is their job, and the job of importers and distributors, to ensure that specifications in keeping with Community legislation are laid down and complied with, thus ensuring a high level of protection for our children's health.

That of course brings us to the question of whether the identity of the donor should be disclosed to the offspring without the donor's consent (1210) Philosophically, my view would be closer to the view of this committee namely, that the rights of offspring should take precedence over the rights of the donor.

These registries would include a donor offspring registry to collect data on the identity of all sperm, egg and embryo donors and any resulting children that might be born from their use; a fertility treatments registry to gather information about the provision outcome of infertility treatments; a drug surveillance program for fertility drugs to track any adverse effects of the drugs on the women and men who take them and any children born as a result of their use; and a health surveillance system to track any short or long term health effects for children born from assisted reproduction.