The fog of war that I wrote about with respect to the tsunami of amendments is lifting with the discussion of the amendments in the ENVI committee today. It was a very interesting debate, and I’ll share my impression of it with you. I have grouped what I heard by subjects so it’s easier to […]
ENVI’s amendments, following those of IMCO have been published now after translation, see here for IVDs and here for medical devices. This accounts for the biggest load of the amendments (297 – 907 on medical devices and 75 – 399 on IVDs), but here is a list of the things that I found particularly interesting. […]
While everybody is running around about the MDR and IVD regulations proposals another storm is brewing in the wings: unannounced audits, which I announced earlier. Currently notified bodies “may” do unannounced audits under the EU medical devices rules. Now they will be required to do a minimum amount of unannounced audits. Required? Yes, EU member […]
I visited the RAPS Regulatory Convergence conference in Seattle, which provides for a very nice opportunity to catch up with the European medical devices crowd that had gathered in numbers to explain the current changes in EU medical devices law to the US audience and to each other. Apart from the ever charming and authoritative Ms […]
Today was a big day with a half hour press conference by Commissioner Dalli (for Twitter summaries see here and here) to festively launch the two much anticipated EU medical devices regulation proposals (one for general medical devices, including active implantables, and one for IVDs). The generalities of the proposals, as you can read in the press release and the Commission’s communication on the subject, are […]
Dear readers, I hope you don’t mind some modest self-promotion: my firm is organising a seminar on EU recent (and future) legal and regulatory developments with respect to in vitro diagnostics, with very interesting external speakers. The seminar is free and you are welcome to attend with as many colleagues as you like (just make […]
I read an interesting article in the Economist’s Technology Quarterly of June 2nd-8th of 2012, p. 17-18, on open source medical devices software. Let me summarise for you: the article starts by showing all the benefits of medical devices software that is developed using open source models, and there are many. For example, security of […]
Interesting developments after the joint plan for action that Commissioner Dalli sent to the member states in the beginning of February this year urging them to step up market surveillance in order to safeguard the credibility of the EU medical devices vigilance system (which are conveniently summarised in his speech of 9 Febuary 2012): the Dutch […]