"Given that the Commission proposal to deal with health issues in the Services Directive was not accepted by the European Parliament and the Council", says the text, the EP "insists that further action is now required to preserve existing rights [and] calls on the Commission [...] to guarantee the safeguarding of those rights:" MEPs, in that vein, also call "for the adoption of a European charter of patients' rights."
Debates: 23.05.2007.