CURRENT HEALTH LAW ISSUES IN CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE(LUBLIN, 3 JUNE 2016, CONFERENCE REPORT)

Abstract

On 3 June 2016 an international conference on Current Health Law Issues in Central and Eastern Europe took place at the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin. The conference was organised by the Department of Administrative Law at the Faculty of Law, Canon Law and Administra-tion under the honorary patronage of the European Association of Health Law (EAHL). The aim of the above-mentioned meeting was to create the platform for exchange of experiences and sharing views by researches and experts from the field of health law from post-communist countries where transformation processes caused many changes in the health system, also in the perspective of their EU memberships. The foreign research centres represented at the conference were the Masaryk University in Brno from the Czech Republic, the National Academy of Management in Kiev and the Legislation Institute of Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine from Ukraine, the University of Ljubljana from Slovenia, and the Kauno Kolegija University of Applied Sciences from Lithuania. Polish speakers and other participants derived, among others, from the Medical University of Lublin, the Jagiel-lonian University, the University of Rzeszów and the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin.