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● provides benefits to Hungarian ethnic minorities in neighbouring countries
● stipulates that those who work in Hungary must participate in the statutory health
insurance scheme and are entitled to health services (Article 7)
● further stipulates that those who do not work in Hungary but utilize health services
in the country can apply for reimbursement of actual expenses (Article 7)
9. Resolution No. 1066/2001. (VII. 10.) Korm. of the Government on the Principles of the
Healthy Nation Public Health Programme, 2001–2010.
● presents a public health action programme aiming to increase life expectancy of men
and women to 70 and 78 years respectively
10. Act LXX of 2001 on the Amendment of Various Acts Concerning Health Care, Supply
of Pharmaceuticals, and Social Care for the Purpose of Legal Harmonization, and of
Act LXXXIII of 1997 on the Services of Compulsory Health Insurance, and of Various
Acts Concerning Social Insurance Contribution and Hypothecated Health Care Tax
(promulgated: 25/10/2001) and Decree No. 34/2001. (X. 17.) EüM of the Minister of
Health on the Amendment of Decree No. 9/1993. (IV. 2.) NM of Minister of Welfare
● abolishes dental co-payments on tooth preserving treatments as of 1 November 2001
● increases the compulsory minimum ownership share of pharmacists in pharmacies to
50% (to be reached by 31 December 2006), and excludes pharmaceutical manufacturers
and wholesalers from the ownership of pharmacies (Article 12)
11. Act LXXXIII of 2001 on the Amendment of Act LXXXIX of 1992 on the System of
Earmarked and Target Subsidies for Local Governments (promulgated on 4/12/2001)
12. Act CVII of 2001 on Provision of Publicly Funded Health Care Services and on the
Forms of Practising Medicine (promulgated: 24/12/2001)
2002
● widens the range of organizational options open to institutional and individual
providers of health services, including the possibility of corporatization of hospitals
(Article 12, section (3)) and self-employment of medical doctors and pharmacists
(“free-lance” medical doctors and pharmacists).
1. Government Decree No. 50/2002. (III. 26.) Korm. on the Technical Conditions of
Modifying Specialist Health Care Capacities and on the Regulations of its Procedure and
of Contracting New Providers
2. Decree No. 11/2002. (III. 26.) EüM of the Minister of Health on the Implementation of
Certain Provisions of Act XXXIV of 2001 on the Territorial Supply Obligation of
Specialist Health Services, further more on the Amendment of Various Laws in
Connection with Health Care
3. Decree No. 12/2002. (III. 28.) EüM of the Minister of Health on the Rules about the
Professional Development Plan of Public Health Care Institutions
4. Decree No. 13/2002. (III. 28.) EüM of the Minister of Health on the Qualification
Requirements of the Director and Deputy Directors of Public Health Care Institutions
as well as on the Detailed Regulations of Application for These Posts
● requires that top managers of public health care institutions have a masters degree in
management (Article 1, section (1), point b))
5. Decree No. 14/2002. (III. 28.) EüM of the Minister of Health on the Terms of Contracting
Out Publicly Funded Health Care Services