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Article: SOCIAL SECURITY : CASE LAW ON HEALTHCARE AND FREEDOM OF MOVEMENT.(Case overview)
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- European Report
- Article date:
- September 7, 2006
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Reimbursing healthcare received by patients in another EU member state would normally fall under social security regulations. But this does not mean that this question cannot also fall under the freedom to provide services and goods, provided for by the EC Treaty. This has been established by case law over the past ten years, as described below.
Case law has long established that medical activities as such fall under the scope of the freedom to provide services without the need to make a distinction between services provided within a hospital and those outside hospitals (Luisi and Carbone, Paragraph 16).
It also explains that the specific nature' of the ...