Category - European Parliament

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More movement – new rapporteur for MDR, same for IVDR

Finally things start moving again in EU medical devices regulation dossier: the new rapporteur for the Medical Devices Regulation was appointed, replacing Dagmar Roth-Behrendt. It’s Glenis Willmott The new rapporteur is UK MEP Glenis Willmott, of the S&D group in the European Parliament, who is certainly familiar with health issues as she has served for example as […]

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EP debate on devices revision – largely predictable, some surprise

Today was an interesting day for medical devices in Europe. We had the EU Parliament’s plenary debate on the medical devices and IVD regulation proposals, and the subsequent vote on the highly appropriate or potentially devasting (depending on who you ask for comments) ENVI committee proposals. You can watch the whole debate video here, the […]