White smoke again! After a long summer following the partial general approach on 19 June in which there was not much to report the Council now reached a general approach on the MDD and IVDR on 5 October, endorsing its negotiating position on the medical devices and in vitro diagnostic medical devices draft Regulations. The […]
Last week I attended the Eucomed Compliance Committee meeting in Brussels, and presented on some of the compliance developments going on in the Netherlands with respect to medical devices. Just like all other member states, the Netherlands had to play their part in executing the Joint Immediate Action Plan. Also, they have some ideas of […]
In my previous post on this topic I wrote that it looked like the Commission had changed tack to propose a pre-market authorisation (PMA) for medical devices after all. It turns out that I had drawn that conclusion prematurely. This post serves to update and correct the picture. As more information became available after the hearing […]
Some time ago I wrote about the proposed ENVI resolution that the the EU Parliament’s ENVI committee adopted in reaction to the PIP breast implants scandal in the EU. At that time the final text was not out because the EU Parliament still had to vote on it. Now it has and the adopted resolution does […]
The European Parliament’s ENVI Committee (Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety) has added to the political pressure on the European Commission that is currently working on the proposal of the Review of the medical devices directives, still scheduled for the end of Q2 2012 as far as I know. At its meeting […]