Welcome to 2020 – happy new year everyone. I don’t care if your conventions do not allow me to wish you best wishes after a certain date anymore. I wish you a happy 2020 because I genuinely hope you will have it. If you are a reader of this blog and you have a happy […]
You may have already heard it from many directions: Eudamed is delayed with two years. Time to party now because you can shelve your MDR implementation project for two years and go back to do other things? Nope, unfortunately most probably not – read on. After some pretty mysterious statements of Commission officials in public […]
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 […]
Remember the CAMD Roadmap (dating back to end 2017) that promised us a roll-out of MDR and IVDR items that were sometimes even marked ‘high priority’ and how that lifted our spirits (at the time)? Remember how this was supplemented with the Rolling Plan, which promised the roll-out of all roll-outs for 2019? I have […]
I see in practice that some companies are well on their way with implementing the new MDR and IVDR regulations, while a lot of others are not. It will be interesting where everyone will be by the time the transitional period of the MDR ends and then when the IVDR transitional period ends. This post […]
Completely in line with expectations the Parliament adopted the texts of the MDR and the IVDR yesterday. I have nothing to add to that in addition to previous posts in this blog. It is what it already was. The texts can be found here. This means that we are now looking at publication in the Official […]