(UPDATE) EU Standards: Potential Hiatus As Priorities, Deadlines And Timeframes Take Shape
Executive Summary
The European Commission’s long overdue MDR/IVDR standards request document – still a draft – gives the European standards bodies just over a week from today to respond. But CEN/Cenelec says it cannot reply yet. So what is the problem?
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