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- 2.
Commission Communication of 2 July 2008, Proposal for a directive on the application of patients’ rights in cross-border health care, COM(2008) 414 final. See Sauter (2009), p. 109.
- 3.
Amendments proposed by the Parliament after its first reading in Inter-institutional File 2008/0142 (COD), 30 April 2009.
- 4.
Regulation 1408/71 of the Council of 14 June 1971 on the application of social security schemes to employed persons, to self-employed persons, and to members of their families moving within the Community, OJ 1971 L 149/2. On the relationship between the Directive and the Regulation see Sauter (2009). See also Regulation 883/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 29 April 2004 on the coordination of social security systems, OJ 2004 L 166/1; Sindbjerg Martinsen (2005).
- 5.
See Sauter (2009).
- 6.
- 7.
See Sauter (2009); ECJ Case C-385/99 Müller-Fauré v. Onderlinge Waarborgmaatschappij OZ Zorgverzekeringen [2003] ECR I-4509; Case C-372/04 Watts v. Bedford Primary Care Trust [2006] ECR I-4325.
- 8.
Article 8 of the proposed Directive.
- 9.
Ibid.
- 10.
See Sauter (2009).
- 11.
See ECJ, Case C-385/99 Müller-Fauré v. Onderlinge Waarborgmaatschappij OZ Zorgverzekeringen [2003] ECR I-4509; ECJ, Case C-372/04 Watts v. Bedford Primary Care Trust [2006] ECR I-4325; Davies (2004), p. 94.
- 12.
Cf., Sauter (2007), on the possible impact of SGEI status on evidential issues, slightly at odds with his argument quoted in the text above.
- 13.
- 14.
ECJ, Joined Cases C-94/04 and C-202/04 Cipolla and Meloni [2006] ECR I-11421.
- 15.
See ECJ, Case C-385/99 Müller-Fauré v. Onderlinge Waarborgmaatschappij OZ Zorgverzekeringen [2003] ECR I-4509; ECJ, Case C-372/04 Watts v. Bedford Primary Care Trust [2006] ECR I-4325.
- 16.
Amendments proposed by the Parliament after its first reading, in Inter-institutional File 2008/0142 (COD), 30 April 2009.
- 17.
See ECJ, Case C-167/97 Seymour-Smith and Perez [1999] ECR I-623; Tobler (2005).
- 18.
See Watts, supra n. 7.
- 19.
See Sect. 8.2, ‘Rights of Exit’ supra.
- 20.
Cf. ECJ, Case C-157/99 Geraets-Smits v. Stichting Ziekenfonds; Peerbooms v. Stichting CZ Groep Zorgverzekeringen [2001] ECR I-5473.
- 21.
Proposed amendment to Article 6(1), in ‘Amendments proposed’, supra n. 3.
- 22.
Ibid.
- 23.
Proposed amendment, introduction of a new Article 5(3)(a).
- 24.
Proposed amendment, introduction of a new Article 9(a).
- 25.
See for discussion Davies (2007a), p. 158.
- 26.
See Buendia Sierra and Hancher (1998), p. 901.
- 27.
See Sauter and Schepel (2009), Chapter 8.
- 28.
For analogous considerations in the context of education funding (grants or subsidised fees), see Davies (2005), p. 217.
- 29.
A flavour of the complexity is provided by Schreyogg et al. (2006), p. 215.
- 30.
For example, ECJ, Case C-157/99 Geraets-Smits v. Stichting Ziekenfonds; Peerbooms v. Stichting CZ Groep Zorgverzekeringen [2001] ECR I-5473; ECJ, Case C-385/99 Müller-Fauré v. Onderlinge Waarborgmaatschappij OZ Zorgverzekeringen [2003] ECR I-4509; ECJ, Case C-372/04 Watts v. Bedford Primary Care Trust [2006] ECR I-4325.
- 31.
ECJ, Case C-157/99 Geraets-Smits v. Stichting Ziekenfonds; Peerbooms v. Stichting CZ Groep Zorgverzekeringen [2001] ECR I-5473.
- 32.
Ibid.
- 33.
See the Member State arguments in ECJ, Case C-385/99 Müller-Fauré v. Onderlinge Waarborgmaatschappij OZ Zorgverzekeringen [2003] ECR I-4509; ECJ, Case C-372/04 Watts v. Bedford Primary Care Trust [2006] ECR I-4325.
- 34.
Section 8.3, ‘Rights of entry’, supra.
- 35.
Ibid.
- 36.
Leenan (1993), Chapters. 4, 8 and 9, especially pp. 41–45.
- 37.
Newdick (2006), p. 1645.
- 38.
- 39.
Davies (2006).
- 40.
See n. 1 supra.
- 41.
Discussed in Davies (2006).
- 42.
Hirschman (1970).
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Davies, G. (2011). Legislating for Patients’ Rights. In: van de Gronden, J., Szyszczak, E., Neergaard, U., Krajewski, M. (eds) Health Care and EU Law. Legal Issues of Services of General Interest. T.M.C. Asser Press, The Hague. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-6704-728-9_8
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