Witnessing and assessing patient and donor identification
(GN18)

Patient selection criteria and laboratory tests (GN11)    

Recruitment of gamete donors, their assessment and screening
(GN11)

Donor assisted conception
(GN20)

Good clinical practice
 -Premises (GN25)
 -Equipment and materials (GN26)
 -Traceability (GN19)
 -Validation (GN15)
 -Quality management system (GN23)
 -Adverse incidents (GN27)
 -Third party agreements (GN24)

Multiple births (GN7)

Staffing at the centre and the competence of staff carrying out licensed activities (GN1 and GN2)

Welfare of the child (GN8)

Embryo testing (GN9 and GN10)

Treating patients and donors fairly (GN29)
 -Confidentiality and privacy (GN30)
 -Complaints (GN28)
 -Provision of a costed treatment plans (GN4)
 -Egg sharing arrangements (GN12)
 -Surrogacy (GN14)

Information given to patients and donors
 -Information about treatment (GN4)
 -Information about storage of gametes and embryos (GN4)
 -Information about the use of embryos in training of staff or use in research (GN22)
 -Information about preimplantation genetic testing (GN5 and GN22)
 -Information about legal parenthood (GN6)

Consent
 -Consent to treatment, storage, donation and disclosure of information (GN5)
 -Consent to use of embryos in training or in research (GN5 and GN22)
 -Consent to legal parenthood (GN6)

Legal requirements (Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990 (as amended))
  -Licensed activities only take place on licensed premises
  -Only permitted embryos are used in the provision of treatment services
  -Embryos are not selected for use in treatment for social reasons
  -Embryos are not created by embryo splitting
  -Embryos are only created where there is a specific reason to do so which is in connection with the provision of treatment services for a particular woman
  -Embryos are only stored if those embryos where created  for a woman receiving treatment services or from whom a third party agreement applies
  -Embryos which are or have been stored are not given to a person, other than in the course of providing treatment services, unless that person is a person to whom a licence applies
 -No money or other benefit is given or received in respect of the supply of gametes or embryos unless authorised by the Authority

Storage of gametes and embryos (GN17)

Distribution and / or receipt of gametes and embryos (GN15)
  -Import of gametes and / or embryos (GN16)
  -Export of gametes and / or embryos (GN16)

Use of embryos for training staff (GN22)

Use of embryos in research (GN22)

Research using human embryos or human admixed embryos is only carried out for the purposes permitted by law. Centres carrying out licensed research ensure the special status of the embryos is maintained.

Centres only use embryos for training staff in the procedures authorised by the HFEA.