The Bundestag intends to launch a new regulation later this year in order to increase the number of potential organ donors. Federal Health Minister Jens Spahn (CDU) and SPD parliamentary group vice-president Karl Lauterbach have now drafted a joint bill that they want to put in Parliament to vote.
According to SPIEGEL information, the group application, which is supported by members of various political groups, stipulates that every citizen should count as a potential organ donor after his or her death - if he has not objected during his lifetime. Citizens who do not want to donate organs would have to document this in a register. You could enter or delete this veto at any time if you change your mind. Also, the case that an organ donation is expressly desired, should be noted in the register.
"Extremely unbureaucratic"
If no objection is filed, this is considered approval. However, relatives should be able to refuse the organ removal, if they make credible that the deceased did not want to be a donor, but this has not documented. To ensure data protection, the registry could be located at a federal agency.
Lauterbach held the proposal on request for "extremely unbureaucratic". The model of the contradiction solution is very secure, "because one can document a change of opinion without much effort".
The Bundestag wants to vote on the reorganization of organ donation. The outcome is still uncertain. At least one parliamentary group wants to bring in a promising counterproposal for a law. The initiators of this second group proposal include Greens leader Annalena Baerbock and the CSU politician Stephan Pilsinger.