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EU court to clarify medical device / drug borderline and the status of MEDDEV documents

Important developments for the medical devices and medicinal products industry: clarification of EU law about the borderline between these groups of products is currently in the making at the European Court of…
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Some important practical points for ISO 14155 compliant clinical trial agreements in the EU, part 2

In a previous post I gave a number of practical tips for drafting ISO 14155 clinical trial agreements. In this post I will give another few. Additional points will surely come to…
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New EU Commission guidance on medical devices borderline products and classification

Yesterday the European Commission’s Working Group on Borderline and Classification issued the new version (1.10) of its Manual on Borderline and Classification in the Community Regulatory Framework for Medical Devices. This manual…
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Some important practical points for ISO 14155 compliant clinical trial agreements in the EU, part 1

In my day-to-day legal practice I see a number of points related to clinical investigation that seem to return and repeat all the time and thought it a good idea to share…
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FDA draft guidance on mobile medical applications

On 21 July the FDA released Draft Guidance for Industry and Food and Drug Administration Staff Mobile Medical Applications, a document that I think has great significance for the regulation of the EU eHealth…
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Consequences of the EU Ker-Optika case for eHealth services

In a previous post I have analysed the consequences of the European Court of Justice’s Ker-Optika judgment for e-commerce in physical medical devices. This post extrapolates the reasoning of the European Court…
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EU Court judgment may add 6.5% customs tariff burden for parts/accessories of medical devices

And now for something completely different: customs tariffs. Dry stuff, but it makes all the difference for the price of the device. Indeed, ‘parts’ and/or ‘accessories’ under heading 9018 of the Combined…
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EU Regulation on e-Labeling of Medical Devices expected to enter into force end this year

On 8 June the European Commission published a draft regulation on e-labeling as part of their WTO Technical Barriers Trade activities. Up to now, e-labelling was problematic and regulated in a fragmented way….
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More on advertising of medical devices – much more

As I have written before on this blog, medical devices are spectacularly unregulated by medical devices specific EU legislation when it comes to advertising and marketing. That does not mean however that…
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