[Dictionary] Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA)

The UK's statutory regulator for fertility treatment and embryo research, created by the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990 and operational since 1991. The HFEA licenses and inspects three categories of activity -- treatment, storage, and research -- through its Licence Committee, and publishes the Code of Practice (currently 9th edition, version 9.4) and General Directions that translate the Act's requirements into day-to-day licence conditions for licensed centres.