Commission Offers Glimpse Of Actions To Speed Up MDR Compliance

14 Jun 2022

With a sense of desperation building among stakeholders over the challenges in ensuring all products are compliant with the Medical Device Regulation in time, high-level solutions are being considered. But a further MDR delay is not an option.

Stella Kyriakides, EU commissioner for health and food safety • Source: Alexandros Michailidis / Shutterstock.com

Hybrid notified body audits and coordinated market surveillance are among the measures that the European Commission has identified as possible actions to alleviate the current burden on notified bodies and improve the speed of compliance with the Medical Device and IVD Regulations

Stella Kyriakides, European commissioner for health and food safety, emphasized to the Council of the EU on 14 June that...