1. Each health care professional has to maintain confidentiality about all the facts he was informed about in relation to the exercise of his/her occupation except in case the person concerned agrees to allow a third party to be informed or if he is exempted from this duty by his superior body in the interest of the state.
2. Health care professionals who have access to health care documentation of a patient must keep the confidentiality of the facts which they gathered from the health documentation.
3. Personal health data may be processed without the consent of the patient when this processing is in relation with health care provided to him, to public health protection and to health insurance.
4. If the data subject requests an information on the processing of his personal data, the controller shall be obliged to provide him with this information without undue delay.
5. Each data subject who finds or presumes that the controller or the processor is carrying out processing of his personal data which is in contradiction with the protection of private and personal life of the data subject or in contradiction with the law, in particular if the personal data are inaccurate regarding the purpose of their processing, may require from the controller or processor to remedy the arisen state of affairs. It can mean in particular blocking, correction, supplementing or liquidation of personal data.

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