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3. Act XLVII of 1997 on Management and Protection of Health Care and Related Personal
Data (promulgated: 05/06/1997)
● protects confidentiality of personal information in health services
4. Decree No. 12/1997. (VI. 5.) NM of the Minister of Welfare on the Amendment of
Decree No. 19/1996. (VII. 26.) NM on the Minimum Standards of Certain Institutions
Providing Health Services
● extends the deadline by which providers have to meet minimum standards
5. Act XLVIII of 1997 on the Amendment of Various Acts in Connection with the
Self Governance of Social Insurance (promulgated: 11/06/1997)
● determines that self-governments not be elected and decreases the number
of representatives
6. Decree No. 17/1997. (VI. 30.) NM of the Minister of Welfare on the Prescription of
Balneotherapy in the Frame of Medical Rehabilitation, on the Professional Requirements
of Providing Balneotherapy which is Subsidized by Social Insurance, and on the
Administration of these Social Insurance Subsidies
7. Act LVIII of 1997 on Commercial Advertising (promulgated: 04/07/1997)
● limits advertising on health damaging products such as tobacco
8. Act LXXX of 1997 on those Entitled for the Services of Social Insurance and Private
Pensions and the Funding of these Services (promulgated: 25/07/1997) and its executive
order of Government Decree No. 195/1997. (XI. 5.) Korm.
● provides the rules for social insurance including compulsory participation (Article 2,
section 1), entitlement for services and contribution rates
● obligates the government to cover any deficit incurred by the HIF (Article 3, section 2)
● stipulates that participation is compulsory for every citizen, including small farmers
(Article 39, section 2), who can choose to pay a higher contribution to be eligible for
cash benefits (Article 34, section 3)
● determines that the government transfer the revenue from the hypothecated health care
tax to the HIF to compensate for non-contributing groups, such as pensioners, women
on maternity leave, conscripts and the poor (Article 39, section 1 and Article 16,
section 1, points b-o)
● further determines that contribution rates are to be determined annually by the
National Assembly (Article 19, contribution ceiling – Article 24)
● sets the minimum level of the contribution base (Article 20, Section 2) and a ceiling for
employee contributions (Article 24, Section 2), calculated as twice the brutto monthly
wages (5520 NCU per calendar day in 2000)
● declares that medical services have to be paid for out-of-pocket by persons neither
insured nor entitled to medical services and when the free movement of persons
regulation (1408//1/EC) does not apply, (Articles 19 and 39)
● mandates the government to prepare recommendations for the National Assembly
to ensure fiscal stability (Article 60)
● distinguishes between insured persons, such as employed persons, members of
cooperatives, apprentices in industrial training, artisans, self-employed persons,
independent farmers, performing artists, lawyers, and recipients of unemployment
benefits and entitled persons, such as pensioners, beneficiaries of unemployment
benefits, beneficiaries of social assistance benefits and allowances, beneficiaries of
pensions provided by churches, full-time students who are Hungarian citizens residing