Access to European Union law
<a href="https://eur-lex.europa.eu/content/help/eurlex-content/experimental-features.html" target="_blank">More about the experimental features corner</a>
Choose the experimental features you want to try
EUR-Lex
Access to European Union law

This document is an excerpt from the EUR-Lex website

You are here
Use quotation marks to search for an "exact phrase". Append an asterisk (*) to a search term to find variations of it (transp*, 32019R*). Use a question mark (?) instead of a single character in your search term to find variations of it (ca?e finds case, cane, care).
Search tips
Need more search options? Use the Advanced search

Document 12012P003

    Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union
    TITLE I - DIGNITY
    Article 3 - Right to the integrity of the person

    OJ C 326, 26.10.2012, p. 396–396 (BG, ES, CS, DA, DE, ET, EL, EN, FR, IT, LV, LT, HU, MT, NL, PL, PT, RO, SK, SL, FI, SV)

    Legal status of the document In force

    ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/treaty/char_2012/art_3/oj

    26.10.2012   

    EN

    Official Journal of the European Union

    C 326/391

    CHARTER OF FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS OF THE EUROPEAN UNION

    TITLE I

    DIGNITY

    Article 3

    Right to the integrity of the person

    1.   Everyone has the right to respect for his or her physical and mental integrity.

    2.   In the fields of medicine and biology, the following must be respected in particular:

    (a)

    the free and informed consent of the person concerned, according to the procedures laid down by law;

    (b)

    the prohibition of eugenic practices, in particular those aiming at the selection of persons;

    (c)

    the prohibition on making the human body and its parts as such a source of financial gain;

    (d)

    the prohibition of the reproductive cloning of human beings.
    Top