---
title: "Bioethics Law"
url: "https://legal.ge/en/service/healthcare-and-pharmaceutical-law-en/bioethics-law-668-en"
field: "Healthcare & Pharmaceutical Law"
description: "Bioethics law in Georgia: the genetic discrimination ban, testing conditions and research consent. Legal.ge."
reviewed: "2026-02-13"
updated: "2026-10-14"
publisher: "legal.ge"
---

# Bioethics Law

> Source: legal.ge, https://legal.ge/en/service/healthcare-and-pharmaceutical-law-en/bioethics-law-668-en

Bioethics law does not exist in Georgia as a separate statute — its codified core lies in the Law on Patients' Rights: the genetic block in Articles 31 to 34, and research consent in Article 26. Foreign bioethics frameworks are not the Georgian reference — the page is carried by the Georgian law.

## The prohibition of genetic discrimination

Article 31 is the foundation of the block: discrimination against a person on grounds of genetic heritage is prohibited. This norm covers every sphere in which a decision about a person is taken — from employment to insurance — and the first test of bioethics law is precisely this prohibition: no decision may rest on genetic heritage.

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### Is there a separate bioethics law?

No — the core is in the patients' rights law: Articles 31-34 and 26.

### What is prohibited in genetics?

Discrimination on grounds of heritage, non-therapeutic testing, changing the descendants' genome and sex selection without medical necessity.

### When is consent unnecessary?

When anonymous information and anonymised material are used.

### When is sex selection admissible?

Only where it is necessary to prevent a hereditary disease linked to sex — the exception of Article 34.