Statutory regulation of the profession of psychologist (paper No. 2113)

The bill is aimed to effectively regulate the profession of psychologist because of the failure to implement the previous Act on the profession of psychologist and professional self-government of psychologists. As no professional self-government for psychologists has been established it is now largely a dead law. The new Deputies’ bill is based also on the key role of the professional corpora‑ tion of psychologists and includes proposals for legal definitions. In the author’s view, the blanket nature of the bill on important issues and the lack of a diagnosis of the regulated area may raise concerns about the potential for a repeated regulatory failure