While nothing much comes out at EU level and member states seem to wait until the last moment with implementing legislation (because the people needed for that are caught up in the gridlocked Brussels MDR and IVDR implementation process as a result of structural under-resourcing of medical devices oversight) some member states are really on […]
The trilogue has been quietly progressing, with a view to being concluded for this Presidency at the EPSCO meeting of the Council on 8 December after a final trilogue meeting planned on 3 December. That is, for this Presidency (the Luxemburg one). If the Commission, Parliament and Commission do not manage to reach consensus on everything, the […]
Yes we can! We have a general approach for both the Medical Devices Regulation and for the IVD Regulation, agreed in the EPSCO Council last Friday. The press release also conveniently bundles all the general approach texts. Although the Council statements by the member states during the meeting left a lot of question marks as to […]
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 […]
The ENVI vote results that have already been hotly debated and opined upon are now finally out in the form of a draft European Parliament legislative resolution that the Parliament will vote on on 22 October. Now we can be sure what’s in the text, we can say something about details that are usually lost […]
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 […]
Well, the long awaited DRB (Dagmar Roth-Behrendt) report is here. I read through it as quickly as I could, answered a bunch of press questions and can now give you my preliminary view. I have poked fun at the process before with the ostrich picture but having read the proposal I am feeling more cynical […]