Freedom of Establishment of Light Scrutiny Health Institutions

1 Due to its broad scope, the freedom of establishment also applies to health institutions and they can be clustered according to the question of how important they are for a health system (Freedom of establishment of health institutions). Some health institutions (hospitals, dental practitioners, medical doctors, laboratories, including blood and human tissues centres) are more ‘central’ to the health systems of Member States and the European Court of Justice (‘ECJ’) only applies a light scrutiny (to be covered in this entry), hence leaving more leeway to Member...