The European Commission is planning to table a new directive on opening up the health services market by the end of 2006.
Buoyed up by several decisions coming from the bloc's top court, particularly a recent one on patient mobility, the commission has already set the process in motion.
"We will come with a separate proposal on health services preferably by the end of the year", Margaritis Schinas, head of the health commissioner's cabinet, told EUobserver.
He said that the...
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