Table IV. Legal limits for public funding in ART.
| Countries | Are there legal limits? | Female | Male | Female BMI kg/m2 | Parity | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Minimum age (years) | Maximum age (years) | Minimum age (years) | Maximum age (years) | ||||
| Albania | No public funding at all | ||||||
| Austria | x | 39 | 49 | ||||
| Armenia | No public funding at all | ||||||
| Belarus | No | ||||||
| Belgium | x | 42 | |||||
| Bosnia and Herzegovina – Fed | x | No | No | No | No | ||
| Bosnia and Herzegovina – Rep | x | 42 | No | ||||
| Bulgaria | x | 43 | No | ||||
| Croatia | x | 42 | No | ||||
| Cyprus | No | ||||||
| Czech Republic | x | 49 | No | ||||
| Denmark | x | 40 | No | The couple or single women cannot have children when receiving public IVF; a couple can have children with previous partner. For IUI there are no limitations | |||
| Estonia | x | 40 | No | ||||
| Finland | x | 40-45 (not in law but in practice) | 60 (not in law but in practice, in public centres only) | ||||
| France | x | 43 | "reproductive age" | ||||
| Georgia | |||||||
| Germany | x | 25 | 39 | 25 | 49 | ||
| Greece | No | ||||||
| Hungary | x | 45 | No | ||||
| Iceland | x | No | No | No | No | 1 | |
| Ireland | No public funding (except drugs) | ||||||
| Italy | x | 46 (homologous and donor cycles)* | |||||
| Kazakhstan | No | ||||||
| Latvia | x | 38 | No | ||||
| Lithuania | x | 42 | No | ||||
| Macedonia | No | ||||||
| Malta | x | 48 | No | Existence of previous children of the couple | |||
| Moldova | x | 40 | No | ||||
| Montenegro | x | 44 | No | 2 | |||
| Norway | No | ||||||
| Poland | x | 40 | No | ||||
| Portugal | x | 40 | 60 | Couples with one child resulting from ART can only get reimbursement to FER of leftover embryos | |||
| Republic of Serbia | x | 42 | No | 30 | |||
| Romania | x | 40 | No | 30 | No living child | ||
| Russia | No | ||||||
| Slovakia | No | ||||||
| Slovenia | x | 42 | No | ||||
| Spain | x | 40 | 55 | 35 | 1 | ||
| Sweden | x | 39 | 55 | Only for public funded IVF | Only one child reimbursed by public funding, No publicly funded IVF if children of their own | ||
| Switzerland | No | ||||||
| The Netherlands | x | 42 | No | ||||
| Turkey | x | 39 | No | No children | |||
| UK | x | According to NICE guidelines and diverse along the country | |||||
| Ukraine | x | 40 | No | ||||
*But there are differences on a regional basis generally lowering the “admission” age to treatments.
FER: frozen embryo replacement, NICE: The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence