30/08/2005 (Agence Europe) - On 11 August 2005, the European Commission adopted a directive reclassifying prosthetic hip, knee and shoulder joints under the directive 93/42/EEC on medical devices. This decision, which comes in response to a request by France and the United Kingdom, will move these prosthetics from class IIb to class III in order to tighten up assessment procedures for conformity. These prosthetics, which are particularly complex in nature, must in both cases be able to...