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The Blue Guide 2022 update – new elements regarding applicability of EU law on products

As announced in my previous blog post providing a general overview of my impression of the changes made in the Blue Guide 2022 compared to the previous 2016 version, this blog post follows up in detail on the changes in Chapter 2. Chapter 2 of the Blue Guide explains when EU law on products applies, […]

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The new Blue Guide 2022 – not much new for devices and IVDs, but certainly more confusion

In short After approximately six years after the previous (2016) version of the Blue Guide the 2022 version finally ‘dropped’ on 29 June 2022 in the Official Journal edition C edition of that day. I will discuss new and amended headings and subjects in the Blue Guide 2022 compared to the 2016 version in a […]

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New MDCG Class I Article 120 (3) and (4) MDR guidance – nothing new but nice summary of requirements

I have blogged before about the effects and possibilities of the Corrigendum of December 2019 for class I medical devices. I refer you to that blog for the background to this discussion, which covers the mechanics of timing. The draft corrigendum discussed in that blog was adopted as described.  The new guidance The MDCG has […]

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Movement in the Commission – medical devices policy back to DG Enterprise

Last week we finally had some new interesting developments (sorry for the boring silence on this blog but there was really nothing to report): the new Commission has completed and we are…

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Updates, patches, add-ons, plugins & the Blue Guide

Here is some follow up on the previous Blue Guide post: the new version of the Blue Guide is the first to address software updates to CE marked products, including software. For the…

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The new Blue Guide is here

After a royal time of suspense, the new Blue Guide has finally arrived. Was it worth the wait and what is new and noteworthy in medical devices? Let’s see. I will take you…

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