The review article discusses the principles and legal approaches to the organization and functioning of biobanking. The article analyzes international acts and national legislation, including that of the Russian Federation, declaring the principles of biobanking in the bioprave system: personal responsibility in implementing the biobanking procedure; anonymity (privacy) and confidentiality of biodata; trust in the process of collecting, storing, processing and handling biological material; human vulnerability; stability of the biobank system; noncommercialization of biological material, ensuring human biosafety. The positions of scientists from various fields of knowledge on biobanking and the legal regulation of this field in medicine and biology related to the collection, processing, storage and analysis of human biological material and biological samples of organisms and associated information for the creation of large biological collections or biobanks are revealed.
biolaw; principles of biobanking; biobanking; biobanking; biological material; biodata