The scale has tipped. After holding out for months facing calls from industry and some Member States, the Commission finally gave in to the COVID-19 health crisis argument. On Friday 3 April, it published a Regulation delaying the implementation of the rules on medical devices. However, the Commission claims that this does not affect the rules on in vitro medical devices.
“A shortage of key certified medical devices or delays in bringing them to market would not be tolerable in the...