Category - Brexit

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Don’t give me Brexit problems, give me Brexit scenarios

At the moment I spend a considerable amount of my lawyering time answering questions concerning Brexit problems. My first question back to the company is: what are your Brexit scenarios? Did you make a plan to cover the scenarios and follow through? Often the answer is “no, we don’t have a plan, because we don’t […]

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MDR and IVDR in 2019: up or out, sink or swim

Happy new year and welcome to 2019, a truly decisive year for the medical devices industry with interests in the EU. If you haven’t spent any time so far getting ahead of events relating to the MDR and IVDR, this is the year that reality will start catching up with you. This year will determine […]

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MDR/IVDR Implementation: the transition period halfway point

If you are still free this Wednesday afternoon and somehow involved on the medical devices industry in the EU, our seminar that afternoon in Amsterdam is for you as it discusses where we are with the implementation of the MDR and IVDR. We still have a few seats available, so this will be time well […]

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Bottlenecks, Brexit and stalling CAMD roll-out

With the summer holidays about to happen and the halfway point of the three year transitional period for the MDR on the horizon, let’s take stock of where we are. If you are a manufacturer and have just started thinking about this MDR or IVDR thing, you are in a bad place. Maybe you have […]

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Bottlenecks, Brexit and stalling CAMD roll-out

With the summer holidays about to happen and the halfway point of the three year transitional period for the MDR on the horizon, let’s take stock of where we are. If you are a manufacturer and have just started thinking about this MDR or IVDR thing, you are in a bad place. Maybe you have […]

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Medical devices and the #Brexit

Wow, while I was still working on wrapping my head around the hundreds of pages of final texts of the MDR and IVDR, the Brexit happened. Speaking of surprises – this was a big one. I do not want to use this blog for political statements, so I won’t bore you with my personal opinion […]