When does a change become “substantial” under the MDR/IVDR—and when must your Notified Body be informed? MDSS is seeing a rising number of quest...
New EU Packaging Regulation (PPWR) – briefly explained
With Regulation (EU) 2025/40 (PPWR), the EU introduces new rules for packaging. This also affects medical devices and in vitro diagnostic devic...
Goodbye DMIDS, Hello EUDAMED!
Germany switches fully to EUDAMED The German authority BfArM has announced that EUDAMED will replace all national device notifications in Germa...
Newsflash – Recently Harmonized Standards
Recently, twelve standards were added to the list of harmonized standards under the EU MDR (Regulation (EU) 2017/745). The list of standards, p...
UK MHRA Proposes Indefinite Recognition for CE-Marked Devices
The UK’s regulatory landscape for medical devices just took a major leap toward long-term certainty. On 16 February 2026, the MHRA released a...
EUDAMED user guide – UDI Devices
The European Commission has published a new EUDAMED User Guide – UDI Devices (Production v2.22.0 – 2026), providing comprehensive and...
EU to become the first market again? Significant reduction of MDR/IVDR burdens ahead!
On December 16, 2025, the European Commission published a legislative proposal substantially revising the Regulations 2017/745 (MDR) and 2017/7...
Eudamed Registration by MDSS – Order Now!
MDSS can manage your EUDAMED registrations on your behalf. Building on decades of experience with national and European device databases, MDSS ...
EU Consultation: Uniform Application of Requirements for Notified Bodies – Have Your Say!
The European Commission has launched a public consultation aimed at improving the uniform application of requirements for Notified Bodies u...
MDSS by your side: Derogation Success Story
“On a duly justified request, Swissmedic may authorise the placing on the market and putting into service of a specific device the use of whi...
