art. 1 The free practice authorization is the official document, issued by the Ministry of Health through the county public health directorate, or the Bucharest municipality, which must be obligatorily held by every person who provides public services related to the medical act: medical physics; psychology; speech therapy; medical sociology; voice therapy; optics-optometry; prosthetics-orthotics; hearing prosthetics; audiology; nutrition and dietetics. The free practice authorization for public services related to the medical act is validated annually. The documents needed to issue the free practice authorization for public services related to the medical act for each category are listed in the application form.

art.2 By exception to the provisions of art.1, the legally constituted professional organizations, with competence in issuing documents attesting professional training and the right to free practice for their members, issue free practice authorizations for their own members who provide public services related to the medical act included in the organization’s statute and competences.

(Order 1992/2023 - for the approval of the Methodological Norms regarding the establishment, authorization, equipping, operation and registration of free practice offices for services related to the medical act, as well as for establishing the documents necessary for issuing free practice authorizations for personnel performing services related to the medical act)