CHAPTER IV

COOPERATION IN HEALTHCARE

Rare diseases
Article 13
The Commission shall support Member States in cooperating in the development of diagnosis and treatment capacity in particular by aiming to:
1. make health professionals aware of the tools available to them at Union level to assist them in the correct diagnosis of rare diseases, in particular the Orphanet database, and the European reference networks;
2. make patients, health professionals and those bodies responsible for the funding of healthcare aware of the possibilities offered by Regulation (EC) No 883/2004 for referral of patients with rare diseases to other Member States even for diagnosis and treatments which are not available in the Member State of affiliation.