The European Commission published, on Friday 6 January, a proposal for a regulation amending the medical devices legislation to avoid shortages of devices during the transition period to the new legislation (the medical devices Regulation EU/2017/745 applicable from 26 May 2021 and the in vitro diagnostic medical devices Regulation EU/2017/746).
The proposal was announced by the Commissioner for Health and Food Safety Stella Kyriakides at the Health Ministers’ meeting on 9 December (see...