Germany: Legal Amendments Ease Restrictions on Living Kidney Donations (opens in new tab)

On June 1, 2026, amendments to the German Transplantation Act (Transplantationsgesetz, TPG) entered into force. The reform eases restrictions on kidney transplants and is designed to increase crossover, or paired, living kidney donations. Legal Background The German Transplantation Act governs organ donations. Originally, the law allowed living kidney donations only if donations from deceased donors were unavailable. Also, only a narrow group of people with a special connection to the donor, ...