Invited on Wednesday 27 October to react to the postponement of the implementation of Regulation 2017/746 on in vitro diagnostic medical devices (see EUROPE B12813A13), the European Parliament’s political groups did not hide their disappointment and annoyance.
This postponement was proposed in mid-October by the European Commission, in view of the lack of “notified bodies” available to assess the conformity of devices under the new regulation.
The previous regulation (98/79/EC) meant...