Problems of Social Hygiene, Public Health and History of MedicineProblems of Social Hygiene, Public Health and History of Medicine0869-866X2412-2106Joint-Stock Company Chicot157110.32687/0869-866X-2024-32-6-1330-1335НеопределенThe problems of legal regulation of per-conception diagnostics (per-conception screening) in the Russian FederationNekotenevaMaria Vmvnekoteneva@msal.ruPonomarevaDaria Vdvponomareva@msal.ruLivshitsSergey Aslmd21@gmail.comVeprinskiyDaniil Vveprinskiy.daniel@gmail.comThe Federal State Autonomous Educational Institution of Higher Education “The O. E. Kutafin Moscow State Law University”, 125993, Moscow, Russia091220243262804202528042025Copyright © 2025,2025<p>The article considers issues of legal regulation of preconception diagnostics (preconception screening) targeted to studying carriage of monogenic diseases and facilitating implementation by potential parents their informed choice. It is emphasized that currently in the Russian Federation there is no comprehensive legal regulation of preconception screening. The existing legal regulation is fragmented. The development of relevant legal regulation requires to take into account targeted nature of preconception screening that is to be clearly distinguished from so-called opportunistic screening i.e. examination for no apparent reasons, indications or purpose. Besides, future normative regulation is to provide accessibility of this type of examination for patients, including its cost reduction.</p>preconception diagnosticspreconception screeninglegal regulationlegislationpreimplantation genetic testingpreventionпреконцепционная диагностикаскрининг носительстваправовое регулированиезаконодательствопреимплантационное генетическое тестированиепрофилактика1.Tuzankina I. A., Voronina L. I., Nechkin A. V. Constitutional and legal aspects of screening for hereditary diseases in the Russian Federation. Sovremennoye pravo = Modern Law. 2019;(1):31–7 (in Russian).2.Nechkin A. V., Zaitseva E. V. Neonatal screening for hereditary diseases: medico-legal aspect. Sovremennaya nauka: aktual'nyye problemy teorii i praktiki. Seriya: Ekonomika i pravo = Modern Science: Current Problems of Theory and Practice. Series: Economics and Law. 2020;(7):167–72 (in Russian).3.Rossiyskaya gazeta. 2011; № 263 (in Russian).4.Glotov A. S. Environmental genetics and predictive medicine: 20 years later. New trends and old basis. Ekologicheskaya genetika = Environmental Genetics. 2023;21(4):299–315 (in Russian).