Organization
The Sector Committee of Social Security and of Health is composed of nine members. There are also nine substitutes.
It has been divided into two sections:
- a Social Security Section with six members: two Commission members and four external members (a physician, a computer scientist and two legal experts);
- a Health Section with six members: two Commission members and four external members (physicians).
Moreover, every section has additional members with a purely advisory vote, viz. the leading civil servant of the eHealth platform, the leading civil servants of the Crossroads Bank of Social Security or of other federal public services in the sector.
Each section's competences have been established by law. Some cases will be treated jointly by both sections. The Committee's President is in charge of the organization of its activities.
In principle, the Committee meets at the Crossroads Bank's Offices monthly. It has drawn up rules of procedure.
The President leads the Committee and chairs its meetings. He makes sure that his Committee's decisions do not contradict the Commission's position in general. That is why he can suspend a Committee case and submit it to the Commission.
A civil servant of the Crossroads Bank is in charge of the Committee's secretarial work.
The Crossroads Bank draws up a report including legal and technical advice, preparing the treatment of requests for the electronic disclosure of personal data within the Social Security data exchange network. As provided for by law, the Crossroads Bank acts as the managing institution.
With regard to cases treating health-related personal data, the eHealth platform has to draft legal and technical advice, if necessary with the support of the Federal Public Service of Public Health, Security of the Food Chain and the Environment, the National Institute for Illness and Disability Insurance (INAMI/RIZIV), the Federal Expertise Centre for Healthcare (KCE) or the Cancer Registry Foundation.
The Committee draws up an annual activity report.
