Bulgaria asks EU court to clarify GDPR safeguards for national health record system
( August 24, 2026, 10:07 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: Bulgaria’s Supreme Administrative Court has asked the EU’s top court whether the country’s mandatory national health information system complies with the General Data Protection Regulation. The Bulgarian court wants to check the GDPR compliance of the Bulgarian health information system's requirement that comprehensive patient data be centrally stored. Moreover, the system also grants doctors, insurers and prosecutors broad, unfiltered access to patient data, including in some cases without patients’ consent.The Official Journal of the European Union entry and the summary of the case are attached....
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