Act now to change EU reg outcomes
This article was originally published in Clinica
Executive Summary
If the medtech industry wants to block unfavourable proposals that could change the entire future EU regulatory structure for medical devices, they will have to act quickly. The deadline for MEPs to table amendments to the highly contentious, 114-page draft report by EU Parliament rapporteur Dagmar Roth-Behrendt on the commission's Medical Device Regulation (MDR) is 7 May, just 19 days away from today.
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