Estimating efficiency of Directive 2011/24/EU cross-border healthcare in member states

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (8) ◽  
pp. 827-834
Author(s):  
Mustapha D Ibrahim ◽  
Mevhibe B Hocaoglu ◽  
Berna Numan ◽  
Sahand Daneshvar
Keyword(s):  
Member State ◽  
Healthcare Policy ◽  
Data Envelopment ◽  
Member States ◽  
Eu Member States ◽  
Patients Rights ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
Country Level ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Patients Experience

Aim: Directive 2011/24/EU on patients’ rights in cross-border healthcare facilitates EU citizens' access to and reimbursement for healthcare provided or prescribed in a member state other than the member state of affiliation. Materials & methods: The efficiency of cross-border healthcare policy is evaluated using data envelopment analysis of relevant items in Eurobarometer Survey on Safety and Quality of Care and Patients’ Rights in the EU. Results: Our study shows policy inefficiency in 52% of the 25 EU member states included in the analysis. Addressing difficulties patients encounter while seeking reimbursement from their national health service or health insurer and reducing the number of adverse events patients experience when receiving healthcare improves policy efficiency. Conclusion: Our findings confirm that there is country-level variation in cross-border healthcare policy efficiency.

European Cross-Border Banking

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-26
Author(s):  
Dalvinder Singh
Keyword(s):  
Member State ◽  
Foreign Bank ◽  
Legal Form ◽  
Member States ◽  
Eu Member States ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
Counterparty Credit Risk ◽  
Bank For International Settlements ◽  
Different Levels ◽  
Over Time

This chapter discusses the interconnected nature of cross-border banking between European Union (EU) Member States in terms of counterparty credit risk exposure at both country and institutional level. The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) consolidated data shows how inflows and outflows of loans and deposits are impacted by events over time. The potential impact of the bank legal form is also important: significant assets held by a branch, as opposed to a subsidiary, lead to different levels of exposure to the home and host Member State. The chapter then shows that cross border banking integration across the EU Member States is not homogenous. The size of the foreign bank presence in each Member State is distinct and can potentially give rise to the risk of contagion. Notably, the size of branch presence rather than subsidiary presence in a respective member state offers an indication of the extent it’s financial system is exposed to systemic spillovers from either the home or host state.

scholarly journals Digital Content Portability and its Relation to Conformity with the Contract

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-84
Author(s):  
Pavel Koukal
Keyword(s):  
Member State ◽  
European Commission ◽  
Digital Content ◽  
Member States ◽  
Eu Member States ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
Consumer Rights ◽  
Legislative Proposals ◽  
Scope Of Application ◽  
The Cross

In this paper the author analyses the possible convergences and divergences of two current legislative proposals of the European Commission: the Portability Regulation and the Digital Content Directive. Both proposals address the issue of access to digital content from different perspectives and complement each other, although they use different legal terminology and in some respects have a different scope of application in the question of cross-border portability of the digital content provided for monetary counter performance to consumers. The Portability Regulation focuses on the cross-border portability of digital content [Art. 3 (1) Portability Regulation), while the Digital Content Directive specifies the consumer rights related to the distribution of digital content and subsumes the accessibility of digital content under the concept of “conformity of the digital content with the contract” [Art. 6 (1), (2) Digital Content Directive). The author aims to answer whether a consumer who is not allowed to use the digital content in EU Member States besides the Member State of his residence will be entitled to pursue claims arising from the non-conformity of the digital content with the contract.

Implementation of the Cross-border Care Directive in EU Member States: Luxembourg

2014 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 56-64 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mike Schwebag
Keyword(s):  
Patient Rights ◽  
The State ◽  
Member States ◽  
Eu Member States ◽  
Patients Rights ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
The Cross

Abstract The Cross-border Care Directive sets up basic patient rights in case of cross-border healthcare. These rights concern both the country of affiliation and the country of treatment of the patient. The article briefly describes the state of the transposition in Luxembourg, with a focus on the draft act on patients’ rights and obligations. This new act on patient rights and obligations will apply without distinction to domestic and cross-border patients, thus transposing most of Luxembourg’s obligations as a country of treatment of a cross-border patient.

scholarly journals Europäische Gemeinnützigkeit

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benjamin Schmidt
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Legal Practice ◽  
Member States ◽  
Eu Member States ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
European Foundation

This thesis seeks to develop a conceptual framework for EU-compliant charity laws. It analyzes critically the legal practice that has emerged in many EU member states after the ECJ decisions in Stauffer and Persche: to require charitable “free movers” to comply with all charitable law requirements of the country in which tax exemption is sought (so-called “strict” comparability test). Further, the thesis focuses on the readiness of national charity laws to administer cross-border cases, the introduction of “new” national factors into charity laws and the proposal for a European Foundation Statute.

scholarly journals Cross-border approach to regions’ smart specialization: experience of the EU member states

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 36-48
Author(s):  
Olha Demedyuk ◽  
Khrystyna Prytula
Keyword(s):  
Regional Development ◽  
Recent Decade ◽  
Innovation Systems ◽  
Member States ◽  
Innovative Strategies ◽  
Eu Member States ◽  
Border Regions ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
Smart Specialization ◽  
The Eu

In the recent decade, the EU Member States have been actively implementing the regional development policy based on innovative strategies of smart specialization. However, lately, European researchers have been paying increasing attention to the issues of regions’ capacity to overcome the boundaries of administrative units inside the country and abroad and to the need to consider regions in the context of their functioning among others, especially from the viewpoint of the growing role of their innovative networks in global value chains. That is why currently the EU is addressing the development of cross-border smart specialization strategies. The paper aims to study the European experience on the functioning of cross-border innovation systems and joint strategic planning of cross-border regions’ development based on smart specialization and to outline the opportunities to implement the EU experience of cross-border approach to smart specialization in cross-border regions of Ukraine with EU Member States. The paper analyzes the views of foreign researchers on the links between innovation systems in cross-border space that constitute the theoretical basis of the study of cross-border smart specialization strategies, namely regarding the dimensions and level of their development. The research of European scientists on cross-border innovation systems in specific cross-border regions is examined, in particular on Spanish-French and German-French borders. Directions of implementation of smart specialization projects in cross-border context under the EU programs and other EU instruments that support regions in cooperation for the elaboration of joint view of development with neighbouring economically, socially, culturally, and historically close regions are outlined. The experience and methodology of the first cross-border smart specialization strategy for Spanish and Portuguese regions are studied in detail. The opportunities to use the EU experience by several Western Ukrainian regions based on the joint smart specialization priorities with the neighboring EU states are outlined. For this purpose, 1) the RIS3 strategies of the regions of Poland and Romania adjoining Ukraine and Regional Development Strategies of respective Ukrainian regions were analyzed to detect similar smart specialization priorities; 2) the clusters in the mentioned regions were analyzed as main drivers of achievement of smart specialization goals to detect similar or complementary functioning areas.

scholarly journals Difference of application of VAT in EU member states during the supply of goods including installation

2008 ◽  
Vol 56 (3) ◽  
pp. 47-56
Author(s):  
Petr David ◽  
Danuše Nerudová
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Member State ◽  
Scientific Work ◽  
The State ◽  
Member States ◽  
Standard Methods ◽  
Eu Countries ◽  
Eu Member States ◽  
The Eu

There still exist the differences in provision of VAT, in interpretation of VAT provisions and application of the rules in practice between the EU member states. Application of VAT during the supply of goods with installation to other EU member state, both during the existence of establishment in the state of customer and also without it, is considered to be one from the problematic field. Other discrepancies are created by inclusion of the sub suppliers, who can come from other EU member state or from the same state as customer, to this transaction. Questions of VAT application during the supply of goods with installation to other EU member state were processed by using standard methods of scientific work in the frame of five selected EU countries – Hungary, Poland, Romania, Slovakia and Czech Republic.

External Aspects of the European Union´s Competitiveness

2018 ◽  
pp. 180-208
Author(s):  
Lenka Fojtíková ◽  
Michaela Staníčková
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Foreign Trade ◽  
Data Envelopment ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Member States ◽  
Eu Member States ◽  
Trade Area ◽  
National Performance ◽  
Productive Potential ◽  
The Eu

This chapter deals with application of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) method to multicriteria performance evaluation of the European Union' (EU) Member States in the reference period 2000-2015. The productivity of the EU countries can be seen as the source of national performance and subsequent international competitiveness. International trade, as a major factor of openness, has an increasingly significant contribution to economic growth and thus for competitiveness. The aim of the chapter is to analyse level of productive potential achieved by the EU Member States. The results confirm the heterogeneity that exists among the EU Member States as well as in the trade area. While the calculations show that productivity growth of foreign trade was significant in the case of the entire EU, but the significance of productivity in foreign trade was not the same in the case of individual countries.

scholarly journals Measuring the efficiency of medical tourism industry in EU member states

2019 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 115-130 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lorena Androutsou ◽  
Theodore Metaxas
Keyword(s):  
Member State ◽  
Medical Tourism ◽  
Health Indicators ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Border Health ◽  
Hospital Discharges ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Eu Member States ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
The Cross

Purpose Under the Directive 2011/24/EU, medical tourism and cross-border health are interrelated terms regarding the freedom to move to get the most accessible medical treatment into EU Member State within the defined procedures for reimbursement. Little known empirically regarding the efficiency of the cross-border health/medical tourism industry. This study aims to measure its efficiency in Europe for the years 2010-2014, by using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). Design/methodology/approach Data obtained from OECD and the European Core Health Indicators (ECHI), which is collecting the data through Eurostat. Eurostat collects data on health-care activities and provides data on hospital discharges, including the hospital discharges of non-residents and these include hospital discharges of in-patients and day care patients. The analysis uses “DEA.P, 2.1 for windows” by Coelli (1996). Findings The results show that the Members States health systems were very efficient in handling non-residents in-patients; however, when managing day cases/outpatients, the efficiency scores dropped. Practical implications The findings would have significant associations affecting intentions to revisit clinics and the destination country. In addition, will be useful to those seeking a better understanding of the cross-border health and medical tourism industry efficiency. Originality/value Extending the findings of the European Commission report (2015c) by examining how well medical tourists are informed about the decision they are making, would be of perceived value. These are important indicators at European level by helping each Member State to measure its medical tourism services.

Substantive Legal Obligations of EUro area Member States

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles Proctor
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Member State ◽  
Euro Area ◽  
Member States ◽  
Eu Member States ◽  
Legal Obligations

This chapter considers the substantive legal obligations of those European Union (EU) Member States that have adopted, or are to adopt, the euro as their currency. In other words, what is the nature of the burdens and obligations that a participating Member State is required to accept in return for its admission to the benefits of euro area membership?

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