The National Health Service (Reimbursement of the Cost of EEA Treatment) Regulations 2010
These Regulations give effect to the judgment of the European Court of Justice in Case C-372/04 The Queen, on the application of Yvonne Watts v Bedford Primary Care Trust and Secretary of State for Health ([2006]ECR I-4325), which held that the obligation under Article 49 of the EC Treaty (this Article, now numbered Article 56 under the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, provides for the freedom to provide and receive services in another Member State of the European Union) to reimburse the cost of hospital treatment provided in another member State also applies to a tax-funded national health service, such as in England and Wales, which provides such treatment free of charge. These Regulations also cover non-hospital treatment.