EU committee votes in favor of complex medtech approvals system and new reprocessing rules
This article was originally published in SRA
Executive Summary
In its long awaited, and three-times delayed voting session, the European Parliament’s committee on the environment, public health and food safety (ENVI) has now voted in favor all the compromise amendments proposed by rapporteur Dagmar Roth-Behrendt in her latest report on the European Commission's proposed Medical Device Regulation1,2.
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