Organ transplantation and the proposed directive on cross border care

European Journal of Health Law

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 427-431

  Nys, Herman ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b European Association of Health Law   (United Kingdom)

^c World Association for Medical Law   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EDITORIAL; EUROPEAN UNION; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; LEGAL ASPECT; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; TRANSPLANTATION;

DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; EUROPEAN UNION; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; INTERNATIONALITY; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; TISSUE AND ORGAN PROCUREMENT; WAITING LISTS;

EID: 77957193905     PISSN: 09290273     EISSN: 15718093     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/157180910X531793     Document Type: Review

References (13)

1. COM (2008) 414 final. I will refer to this Directive as 'The Cross Border Care Directive'.
2. Italics added, HN.
3. Italics added, HN. 4) European Parliament, Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety, Working Document on the proposal for a Directive on standards of quality and safety for human organs intended for transplantation, 12 March 2009. The procedure for the approval of this Directive is now completed.
4. See: http:/register.consilium.europa.eu/pdf/en/10/st09/st09948.en10.pdf.
5. Para. 2 of Rec. (2001) 15 on the management of organ transplant waiting lists and waiting times.
6. Article 3 of the additional protocol.
7. Case C-372/04 Watts, para. 67.
8. W. Sauter, 'The proposed patient mobility Directive and the reform of cross-border healthcare in the EU', TILEC Discussion Paper, September 2008, 45. In the May 2010 proposal Article 5(g) has been replaced by Article 5.3 that provides: 'The principle of non-discrimination with regard to nationality shall be applied to patients from other Member States'. The fundamental idea remains however the same.
9. Recital 11a of the 2010 proposal exactly states the same.
10. Also Recital 11a of the 2010 proposal contains this sentence.
11. Sauter, supra note 9, 45. Tis is also valid for Article 5.3 of the 2010 proposal.
12. B. Haase-Kromwijk et al., 'Organ transplantation and European Community Law: the case of nonresidents', J. Health Services Research Policy, 1997, 170.
13. H. Roscam Abbing, 'Organ transplantation: challenges for the EU', in Y. Englert (ed.), Organ and Tissue Transplantation in the European Union, Martinus Nijhoff, Dordrecht, 1995, p. 22.