[Organ Allocation Issues in Transplantation Medicine: Legal Aspects]

In transplantation medicine there is neither fair organ allocation per se, nor a specific organ distribution required by the German law. The constitution primarily provides a restrictive framework, and it is the parliamentary legislator's task to fill in the details. Following the principle of division of labour, the involvement of medicine in solution finding is permitted and deemed to be justified. Nevertheless, these basic decisions should have been made by the German legislator in much more detail.