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Category - audit

27-03-2013medicaldeviceslegal

Unannounced notified body visits recommendation imminent – amend your contracts and procedures now!

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 […]

23-04-2012medicaldeviceslegal

Marketing surveillance shaping up pre-Review with Dutch Minister feedback to Dalli Action Plan

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 […]