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Spain pledges to implement the right to be forgotten in June for cancer patients
The PSOE party will amend the law so that patients who have suffered from cancer do not have to declare it when taking out health insurance or a mortgage
President of Spain Pedro Sánchez has returned from a meeting with Joe Biden at the White House with an astounding promise to introduce, with near immediate effect, the right to be forgotten for people who have recovered from cancer.
The right to be forgotten, known in Spanish as ‘el derecho al olvido oncológico’, ensures that people who have suffered from cancer and recovered from it do not have to declare it when taking out life insurance, buying a house or requesting a loan.
The European Union has asked its member states to include the right to be forgotten in their legislation before 2025. Sánchez’s intention is to implement it in Spain as early as this June.
The announcement comes as he kicks off his campaign tour for the May 28 municipal elections.
Speaking to Spanish cancer associations in Seville this weekend, the President said that “it makes no sense that, after having suffered a serious illness” patients should be penalised “with more onerous conditions”.
The government plans to approve a legislative initiative that will declare null and void “all clauses based on oncological antecedents that exclude or discriminate when contracting products or services” and that will establish “for the first time the right not to declare that one has suffered from cancer when taking out insurance linked to a mortgage”.
This will be done through the reform of the Royal Decree that approved in 2007 the Law for the Defence of Consumers and Users and other complementary laws.
The new right will apply to people who completed their cancer treatment at least five years before taking out their insurance or loan, providing the cancer has not returned in that time.
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