1. Medical institutions have the obligation to maintain two kinds of health files: individual and collective. Collective documentation such a catalogues, books, registers organized chronologically, are kept for all patients in the institution and also include patients’ medical data. The patient has the right to access both files. Access to the individual medical documentation in the health care institution should be provided through an oral or written request of the patient or his/her legal representative. In the case of the death of the patient, the same right is given to the person previously authorised by the patient on the eventuality of this fact. Patient has also the right to access to the collective medical documentation, upon the written request. Access is limited to the data of a patient.
2. The patient has access, by the agency of his physician, to all data collected in his medical files, meaning not only information about diagnosis and therapy, but all gathered information.
3. The patient has the right to ask a copies and certified copies of documentation.
4. Not only the patient, his/her legal representative or a person who was authorized by the patient (e.g. his lawyer) has access to his medical records, but also the following bodies:
   1. to the patient or to his/her legal representative or to a person authorized by the
      patient (for instance his lawyer);
   2. to health care institutions, their organizational units and medical professionals
      outside health care institutions, if the records are necessary to ensure the ongoing
      nature of health care services;
   3. to State bodies proper for health care and to bodies of physicians' selfgovernment
      in the scope necessary to perform the control and supervision;
   4. to the Minister of Health, courts and prosecutors and to the disciplinary accuser
      of professional liability in relation to the procedure being conducted;
   5. to bodies and institutions authorized by force of separate laws, if the examination
      was carried out at their request;
   6. to the disability pension entity, insurance plants and to commissions which
      determine disability degree with reference to the proceedings run thereby; and
   7. to records of medical services in the scope necessary to make entries.

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