The European Commission (EC) published a document on the state-of-play of designation process of Notified Bodies under the MDR and IVDR: 44 applications received for…
European Medical Device Nomenclature
The European Commission Unit dealing with medical devices – newly under the Directorate for Health and Food Safety (move from DG GROW to DG SANTE)…
MDCG Guidance on cybersecurity for MD
The European Commission published today a new MDCG Guidance, which is 16th in line, and has the purpose to help medical device manufacturers and other…
IVDR: 3rd NB accredited
Today, the European Commission updated the NANDO database by adding another Notified Body accredited for the assessment of devices under the In Vitro Diagnostic Medical…
MDCG Guidance timeline updated
Today, an updated version of the MDCG work progress was released, listing past and ongoing development of guidance documents within MDCG Subgroups. We shall still…
MDCG Guidance on MDR/IVDR device sampling + MDR Codes
The MDCG published two important guidance documents this afternoon. Firstly, an Explanatory note on MDR Codes, i.e. MDA/MDN, MDS, MDT was published. These Codes are…
UDI issuing entities on Basic-UDI and UDI formats
The four accredited UDI issuing entities (which were designated by the Commission Implementing Decision of 7 June 2019) released further specifications on Basic UDI-DI and…
EUDAMED delayed!
The European Commission officially announced the delay of the EUDAMED database to May 2022: ” The Commission concluded that it will only be possible to…
Timeline for future MDCG documents published!
Albeit half of the deadlines for the endorsement of MDCG Guidance is not yet defined (TBD), however here below we present the documents that shall…
EMA Q&A Document on implementation of MDR and IVDR update released.
Questions and Answers document updated version has been released on 21.10.2019 by the European Medicines Agency (EMA). Notified bodies should seek authorisation to the EMA…