The European Commission has recently published a number of revised or new documents, as follows:.
In addition, Team-NB has published a statement regarding the ‘Effect of Covid-19 on MDR Implementation‘, one day ahead of the Official Journal of the European Union publishing Commission Recommendation (EU) 2020/403 on ‘Conformity assessment and market surveillance procedures within the context of the COVID-19 threat’, available from here. The Recommendation basically states that the current legislation for personal protective equipment (PPE) and medical devices allows for derogations from certain aspects of the regulations concerned where such PPE and medical devices “are essential for healthcare workers, first responders and other personnel involved in the efforts to contain the virus and avoid its further spread”.