Everybody (I would hope so for the sake of cultural standards) will be familiar with the famous Monty Python sketch about the two bored pilots that decide to make things interesting by causing panic with the passengers by means of a series of increasingly urgent and ill-considered messages over the airplane intercom. This sketch almost […]
While everybody is focusing on the legislative process in the ENVI committee and (to a limited extent) on what the Council is doing, significant other developments are playing in the background. Joint Immediate Action Plan You may remember that as soon as the PIP scandal’s implications became clear, the Commission initiated the Joint Immediate Action […]
While everybody is focusing on the legislative process in the ENVI committee and (to a limited extent) on what the Council is doing, significant other developments are playing in the background. Joint Immediate Action Plan You may remember that as soon as the PIP scandal’s implications became clear, the Commission initiated the Joint Immediate Action […]
So far it may have looked like the IVD regulation proposal would be put to a vote in the ENVI committee on 10 July because unlike the explicit movement of the date for the vote on the general medical devices regulation proposal the IVD proposal seemed to stay on track. That turns out not to […]
Here’s some EU legislative procedure fun: do you know the joke about the European Parliament committee that was going to compromise to have an unproblematic vote? – It didn’t! Well, that was a silly lawyer joke to make as a segue to inform you that the ENVI committee is not going to vote on the […]
The EU member states have so far been the dark horse in the discussions surrounding the revision of the EU medical devices directives, keeping their cards close to their chest and not getting involved in the largely fact free politics surrounding the ENVI rapporteurs’ drafts for the medical devices and IVD regulations. Council of Employment, […]
While the medical devices and IVD regulation proposals trickle through the legislative process and people concentrate on details like I have done on this blog as well, it might be nice to have a higher level picture. So that’s what my UK colleague Alex Denoon and I prepared for a recent webinar, and what we […]
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 […]
As promised, here is an analysis of the IVD amendments further to the report provided by rapporteur Liese, with numbers 75-237 and 238-399. Not that as many as the medical devices ones, but still a lot – and no less complex. I won’t repeat all the procedural proposals that are both in the medical devices […]
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. […]