JUAN CARLOS I REY OF SPAIN

To all who present it and understand it.

Sabed: That the General Courts have approved and I come to sanction the following law.

EXPLANATORY STATEMENT

The extraordinary credit is intended to provide the necessary resources to pay social support to people with hemophilia or other congenital coagulopathies that have developed hepatitis C as a result. treatment received with concentrates of coagulation factors in the field of the public health system.

Law 55/1999, of 29 December, of fiscal, administrative and social measures, in its article 80 "Social aid to those affected by hepatitis C", provided that the Government within five months will produce a census of persons with haemophilia or other congenital coagulopathies who have developed hepatitis C as a result of having received treatment with coagulation factor concentrates in the field of the public health system, criteria for inclusion in the census shall be determined by a technical committee within the Ministry of Health and Consumer Affairs.

The census should be compiled from the data provided by public health centres and managed by a commission set up for this purpose in the Ministry of Health and Consumer Affairs, which will participate in the and the designated technicians. Once the census was published, a period of two months was available for those persons who did not appear in the census to submit the required documentary contributions.

The final census was approved by the Gestora Commission on 21 November 2000, and it was estimated at 735.

People included in the final census will be entitled to social assistance, with the conditions and in the amount determined by a law to the effect.

Law 14/2002 of 5 June establishing social aid for persons with haemophilia or other congenital coagulopathies who have developed hepatitis C as a result of having received treatment with In the case of a concentration of coagulation factors in the field of the public health system, and other tax rules, this aid, in Article 2 'Social aid', amounts to EUR 18,030,36 per beneficiary, the perception of this compatible aid being with that of any public pension which the beneficiary is entitled to receive.

Article 3.2 of Law 14/2002, of 5 June, provides that persons deemed to be beneficiaries may apply within four months of the entry into force of the regulation of this law, which may be granted to persons who are considered beneficiaries. may correspond to them.

The additional provision of Law 14/2002 states that it will be considered that the aid provided for in Article 2 may be granted.

of the law haemophiliacs or other congenital coagulopathies that have developed hepatitis C as a consequence of having received treatment with concentrates of coagulation factors in the public health system, and are not included in the definitive census of Article 80 of Law 55/1999, of fiscal, administrative and social measures, due to objective and duly accredited circumstances.

Royal Decree 377/2003 of 28 March, regulating the procedure for the processing and granting of social aid to persons with haemophilia or other congenital coagulopathies, who have developed hepatitis C as a consequence of having received treatment with coagulation factor concentrates in the field of the public health system, it develops the provisions of Article 3.2 and the additional provision of Law 14/2002 of 5 June.

In order to provide the necessary resources for the payment of these social aid, this extraordinary appropriation is processed, in agreement with the State Council, after a favourable report from the Directorate General of Budgets.

Article 1. Granting of special credit.

An extraordinary credit is granted, amounting to EUR 19833,396 to Section 26 "Ministry of Health and Consumer Affairs", Service 07 "Directorate-General for Public Health", Programme 413C " External health and planning and coordination Article 48 "For non-profit families and institutions", Concept 484 " For the payment of social aid to patients with hepatitis C for having received treatment with concentrates of coagulation factors in the field of the public health system (Law 14/2002) ".

Article 2. Financing of extraordinary credit.

The special credit provided for in the previous Article shall be financed from credit 35,01.634A.500 " Fund for the contingency of budgetary implementation. Article 15 of Law 18/2001 ", in accordance with the provisions of article 16 of Law 18/2001 of December 12, General of Budget Stability.

Single end disposition. Entry into force.

This law shall enter into force on the day following that of its publication in the "Official Gazette of the State".

Therefore, I command all Spaniards, individuals and authorities, to keep and keep this law.

Madrid, 28 November 2003.

JOHN CARLOS R.

The President of the Government,

JOSÉ MARÍA AZNAR LÓPEZ