LEGAL ASPECTS OF THE COLLECTION, STORAGE AND PROCESSING OF GENETIC INFORMATION

Abstract

The legal norms regulating the collection, storage and processing of human genetic information are aimed at ensuring the proper conduct of genetic research procedures and protecting the participants’ rights. It is particularly important to highlight that national legislation, taking into account international practice, should provide specific methods for collecting biological material, information storage periods and features of its processing. Purpose: to identify the legal characteristics of the collection, storage and processing of genetic information, including legal issues and criteria for modernizing the legislation governing genetic information research. Methods: empirical methods of comparison, description and interpretation, formal-legal, interpreting legal norms. Results: the article considers legal aspects and characteristics of regulating the process and conditions of collection, storage and processing of genetic information; it reveals some problems encountered in genetic research, regarding the storage time of materials and confidentiality in the processing of third-party information. The authors outline ways of improvement to address them.

Keywords

• human genome
• genetic information
• personal data
• biometric data
• biological materials
• collection
• storage
• processing
• use
• biobank