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The promulgation of the law of 2 August 2021 on bioethics was followed by a significant number of requests for AMP from female couples and unmarried women (17,000 in 1 year), but also proposals for sperm donations (nearly 600 in 2021, i.e. twice as many as in 2019). The stocks of donor sperm straws built up to date (nearly 90,000 straws) are sufficient to meet the demand from all groups. The observed lengthening of the duration of the AMP with donation process, from 12 to 13.9 months, reveals that the supply of care is not yet sized to meet the impacts of the law. It is not linked to the insufficiency of sperm stocks but rather to the organisation of these courses within a limited number of authorised centres (around thirty). For the months and years to come, the challenge is twofold in terms of the management of donor sperm stocks in order to respond to legislative changes on access to origins and the requests of the persons concerned: i) concerted management to limit the number of straws that will be destroyed and ii) the constitution of a sufficient stock of straws from donors who have consented to their identity being transmitted to the persons born from their donation, if they so request. The work of the Bioethics Law Monitoring Committee, led by the Agence de la biomédecine, by encouraging continuous exchange between all the stakeholders, and also the support of the centres by the institutional players, aims to facilitate the adequacy of the supply of care to the expectations of users and professionals. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]