EU Regulatory Roundup, April 2019: Progress Toward Regulation Implementation Steps Up
Executive Summary
April 2019 was seemingly a bumper month in terms of the amount of progress toward implementation of the EU Medical Device and IVD Regulations. There is now, finally, a sense that the sector is moving towards implementation of the MDR. But with so much left until so late, will enough progress be achieved in the time left?
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