Article 14 of the Saudi Fertility Units Law

This article places on fertility units a periodic duty of disclosure to the supervising body:

• Nature of the duty: submitting an annual report.
• Who receives it: the Supervisory Committee.
• Contents of the report:
  1. Comprehensive statistics.
  2. A statement of the cases examined and treated.

The article does not say when during the year the report must be submitted or in what form, and it does not detail the elements of the statistics. The evident purpose is to enable the Supervisory Committee to follow the units' activity on a regular basis.

Note that this duty concerns submitting information specifically to the Supervisory Committee, which under Article 1 is the committee responsible for overseeing fertilization, embryo and infertility treatment matters.

This article follows Article 13, which bars research on sperm, ova, zygotes and embryos except with the approval of the sample owners and the Supervisory Committee. It is followed by Article 15, which sets out the formation of the Supervisory Committee by decision of the Minister, chaired by the Undersecretary of the Ministry of Health or their delegate, with the Director General of Medical Licenses, a faculty member, consultants, a Sharia adviser and a legal adviser as members.

A person who needs to know their unit's obligations toward the Supervisory Committee may consult a lawyer who specializes in health regulations.