On 28 September the Commission adopted two related proposals for EU regulation of no-fault liability for defective products. One proposal updates the ‘old’ Product Liability Directive (PLD) from 1985 to make it suitable again for the current circumstances. The other proposal provides a complimentary directive for liability specifically for damage caused by AI. You can […]
Do you know that feeling that things look far away, but when you think about it are a lot closer than you think? This is the feeling that the first medical devices companies are having because are facing the reality that they might not be in time any more to have a valid CE mark […]
One of the interesting features of the new MDR and IVDR is the new chapter on economic operators (chapter II), which implements a completely new (to the medical devices industry at least) regime of supply chain regulation and related aspects. The new supply chain regime was on the horizon for a long time because it […]
In the series of articles on this blog discussing parts of the proposed EU medical devices and IVD regulations I am taking a look now at economic operators, or as Maurizio Suppo calls them in an interesting analysis of the IVD regulation proposal: the MAID (manufacturer, authorized representative, importer, and distributor). Both the IVD and medical […]
In the series of articles on this blog discussing parts of the proposed EU medical devices and IVD regulations I am taking a look now at economic operators, or as Maurizio Suppo calls them in an interesting analysis of the IVD regulation proposal: the MAID (manufacturer, authorized representative, importer, and distributor). Both the IVD and medical […]