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Happy 2025 – more churn for MDR and IVDR!

Happy new year everyone! I hope you had a good rest over the holidays because 2025 will be interesting. I am planning to revive this blog this year and hope to put new energy in it by making it more periodical with smaller bits of information and shorter analysis. You will still get my unique […]



Impossible and Incredible And Yet Really Happened

What can we learn from the Impossible vs. Incredible case in the Netherlands? At the end May this year, the Court of The Hague rendered a remarkable judgment: at the request of Impossible Foods, Nestlé was banned from launching its INCREDIBLE BURGER in the EU. How is this possible? Impossible Foods is not even on […]


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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…
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New EU guidance on Post Market Clinical Follow-Up Studies published and other MEDDEV guidance announced

The EU just released its first MEDDEV of a number that were agreed upon in the recent MDEG meeting. More are expected to trickle onto the Commission’s devices web pages in the coming…
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Some important practical points for ISO 14155 compliant clinical trial agreements in the EU, part 2

In a previous post I gave a number of practical tips for drafting ISO 14155 clinical trial agreements. In this post I will give another few. Additional points will surely come to…
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Some important practical points for ISO 14155 compliant clinical trial agreements in the EU, part 1

In my day-to-day legal practice I see a number of points related to clinical investigation that seem to return and repeat all the time and thought it a good idea to share…
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Outlines of the medical devices Recast become more fixed with Council conclusions

Since the High Level Meeting end of March where the Commission outlined its plans for the Recast of the Medical Devices Directive and took stock of the feelings about it in the…
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