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The revised bioethics law was promulgated in August 2021. It bestows new rights on female couples and single women who can benefit from medically assisted reproduction (MAR) with a third-party donor. In addition, it also allows the principle of access to origins to persons conceived by donation who request it, and obliges candidates for gamete or embryo donation to register so as to fulfil this obligation. The revised law makes it possible to store gametes outside of medical indications for both women and men. All of these new rights have major repercussions in the organization of donation centers and more specifically in centers for the study and preservation of eggs and sperm (Centres d’étude et de conservation des œufs et du sperme, Cecos), given the unanticipated extent of new uses of medically assisted reproduction (ART) with third-party donors. It seems necessary to adapt care pathways, as well as interactions between the professionals of the donation centers and the new applicants, so as to best meet the expectations of each of the stakeholders.