Europe plays pass-the-parcel with In Vitro Diagnostic (IVD) Directive
This article was originally published in Clinica
Executive Summary
1996 was a year of heated exchanges on the draft IVD Directive as the text was passed around the European Parliament in the first three months of the year and its provisions were debated throughout the year in the Council of Ministers. Solutions have been proposed for most of the tricky issues, and industry hopes that the European Council and Parliament will adopt the text before the end of 1997.
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