On Tuesday 14 April, the European Commissioner for Health, Olivér Várhelyi, told the European Parliament’s Committee on Public Health that the current regulation on medical devices had become “too complex”, placing a heavy burden on the medical technology sector (38,000 companies in Europe, 90% of which are SMEs).
He denounced a “comparatively high” administrative burden costing “hundreds of thousands of euros” for repetitive procedures “that do not add to patient...