In the article there is considered the obtaining of an informed consent in children. That follows from a consideration of the verdict in Gillick vs. West Norfolk, as well as from the Helsinki Declaration, the Ottawa Declaration of the WMA on the rights of the child in health care in 1999, and from the Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine of the Council of Europe in 1997.A child is a person and therefore, it is necessary to respect its development andmaturation to a full human being.

        Key words: informed consent - pediatrics - Gillick vs. West Norfolk - Helsinki Declaration Ottawa Declaration - Convention on Biomedicine.