A bill to revise the Organ Transplant Law and scrap the donor minimum age at 15 gained full Diet passage when it cleared the Upper House on July 13.

The bill, known as Plan A, which won Lower House approval in June, allows brain-dead children under age 15 to be an organ donor with the family's consent and recognizes brain death as legal death.

The transplant law, enacted 12 years ago, forbids brain-dead people under 15 from becoming an organ donor. Supporters of Plan A had aimed to revise the law to increase the self-sufficiency of domestic organ availability, but some lawmakers argued brain death is too sensitive an issue and thus should not be universally recognized as actual death.