European and comparative law study regarding family’s legal role in deceased organ procurement Morla González, Marina Moya Guillem, Clara Delgado Rodríguez, Janet Molina Pérez, Alberto Organ Donation Rates Presumed Consent Explicit Consent Family’s Authorization Registry Ratios de Donación de Órganos Consentimiento Presunto Consentimiento Explícito Autorización de la Familia Registro (RI §423928) This research was conducted as part of the project INEDyTO (Investigation on the Ethics of Organ Donation and Transplantation), funded by the Spanish Government (MINECO FFI2017-88913-P) and the Grant IT-1066-16, funded by the Government of the Basque Country. Several European countries are approving legislative reforms moving to a presumed consent system in order to increase organ donation rates. Nevertheless, irrespective of the consent system in force, family’s decisional capacity probably causes a greater impact on such rates. In this contribution we have developed a systematic methodology in order to analyse and compare European organ procurement laws, and we clarify the weight given by each European law to relatives’ decisional capacity over individual’s preferences (expressed or not while alive) regarding the destination of his or her organs after death. In this sense, the results constitute the first comprehensive and comparative legislative mapping on European transplantation laws. Numerosos países europeos están introduciendo reformas normativas a favor de un sistema de consentimiento presunto con el objetivo de incrementar las ratios de donación de órganos post mortem. No obstante, independientemente del sistema de consentimiento vigente, el papel decisional de la familia causa probablemente un impacto mayor en dichas ratios. En esta contribución desarrollamos una metodología sistemática para analizar y comparar las normativas europeas, y esclarecemos el peso que las leyes de trasplante de órganos de cada estado europeo otorgan a la decisión de la familia sobre las preferencias del individuo (expresadas o no en vida) acerca del destino de sus órganos tras su fallecimiento. En este sentido, los resultados constituyen el primer mapeo jurídico comparativo de las leyes de trasplante europeas. 2024-12-11T12:31:59Z 2024-12-11T12:31:59Z 2021-02-18 journal article Morla González, Marina et al. European and comparative law study regarding family’s legal role in deceased organ procurement. Revista General de Derecho Público Comparado. 2021, 29: 33 p. ISSN: 1988-5091 1988-5091 https://hdl.handle.net/10481/97908 eng http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ open access Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internacional Iustel