The Government Council approved plans on Wednesday to formally enshrine the medical right to be forgotten in law through a grand-ducal regulation. The principle allows individuals to omit previous illnesses from insurance declarations once a set timeframe has passed.
The measure had already existed for the past six years under a voluntary agreement between insurers and the Ministry of Health. It will now become legally binding.
For cancer patients, the standard period is set at five years after the end of treatment, after which the illness no longer needs to be declared. Shorter timeframes may apply to other conditions. An expert group will be tasked with issuing recommendations to determine these periods, which will then be formalised in the regulation.
