2017/745 - Regulation (EU) 2017/745 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 5 April 2017 on medical devices, amending Directive 2001/83/EC, Regulation (EC) No 178/2002 and Regulation (EC) No 1223/2009 and repealing Council Directives 90/385/EEC and 93/42/EEC

This document specifies requirements for electrically heated shell boilers manufactured from stainless steel specifically dedicated for generating steam for sterilizers and disinfectors.
This document covers only boilers that are heated by immersion heaters and which have a maximum allowable pressure (PS) of not greater than 6 bar, a maximum volume (V) of 1 000 litres and a product of PS ∙ V not greater than 3 000 bar ∙ l.

This document specifies requirements for the basic safety and essential performance of an oxygen concentrator in combination with its accessories, hereafter referred to as ME equipment, intended to increase the oxygen concentration of gas intended to be delivered to a single patient. Such oxygen concentrators are typically intended for use in the home healthcare environment by a single patient in various environments including any private and public transportation as well as in commercial aircra...view more

This particular standard is applicable to the basic safety and essential performance of sleep apnoea breathing therapy equipment, hereafter referred to as ME equipment, intended to alleviate the symptoms of patients who suffer from obstructive sleep apnoea by delivering a therapeutic breathing pressure to the patient. Sleep apnoea breathing therapy equipment is intended for use in the home healthcare environment by lay operators as well as in professional healthcare institutions.
This particu...view more

This particular standard is applicable to the basic safety and essential performance of oxygen conserving equipment, hereafter referred to as me equipment, in combination with its accessories intended to conserve supplemental oxygen by delivering gas intermittently and synchronized with the patient's inspiratory cycle, when used in the home healthcare environment. Oxygen conserving equipment is typically used by a lay operator.
This particular standard is also applicable to those accessories in...view more

The proposed Technical Report is to provide a common understanding of post-market surveillance, or
PMS facilitating international cooperation in this area. The Technical Report is intended for use by
manufacturers of medical devices. With PMS, the manufacturers can collect, evaluate, and analyze experience gained with their devices after placing on the market. The resulting information can be used for, among others, improvement of the devices.
The proposed Technical Report aims to describe a ...view more

This document is one of a series of standards describing the characteristics for identification cards as defined in the definitions clause and the use of such cards for international interchange.
This document specifies requirements for a high coercivity magnetic stripe (including any protective overlay) on an identification card and encoding technique. It takes into consideration both human and machine aspects and states minimum requirements.
Coercivity influences many of the quantities speci...view more

EN-IEC 60601-2-83 is applicable to the BASIC SAFETY and ESSENTIAL PERFORMANCE of HOME LIGHT THERAPY EQUIPMENT, intended for use in the HOME HEALTHCARE ENVIRONMENT. HOME LIGHT THERAPY EQUIPMENT is typically used by a LAY OPERATOR. The scope of this document includes all light sources except laser. If a clause or subclause is specifically intended to be applicable to ME EQUIPMENT only, or to ME SYSTEMS only, the title and content of that clause or subclause will say so. If that is not the case, th...view more

IEC 60601-2-83:2019 is applicable to the BASIC SAFETY and ESSENTIAL PERFORMANCE of HOME LIGHT THERAPY EQUIPMENT, intended for use in the HOME HEALTHCARE ENVIRONMENT. HOME LIGHT THERAPY EQUIPMENT is typically used by a LAY OPERATOR. The scope of this document includes all light sources except laser.

This document specifies requirements for the development and validation of processes for packaging medical devices that are terminally sterilized. These processes include forming, sealing and assembly of preformed sterile barrier systems, sterile barrier systems and packaging systems.
It is applicable to industry, to health care facilities, and to wherever medical devices are packaged and sterilized.
It does not cover all requirements for packaging medical devices that are manufactured aseptic...view more

This document specifies requirements and test methods for materials, preformed sterile barrier systems, sterile barrier systems and packaging systems that are intended to maintain sterility of terminally sterilized medical devices until the point of use.
It is applicable to industry, to health care facilities, and to wherever medical devices are placed in sterile barrier systems and sterilized.
It does not cover all requirements for sterile barrier systems and packaging systems for medical dev...view more

This document specifies terminology, principles and a process for risk management of medical devices, including software as a medical device and in vitro diagnostic medical devices. The process described in this document intends to assist manufacturers of medical devices to identify the hazards associated with the medical device, to estimate and evaluate the associated risks, to control these risks, and to monitor the effectiveness of the controls.
The requirements of this document are applicab...view more

20191119 - Negative assessment addressed through BT decision C168/2019 (SV)
2019-03-07-JO-  under HAS assessment at PUB stage. E&Y Report was due on 03 March 2019- Awaiting for  the assessment report E&Y Report

20191119 - Negative assessment addressed through BT decision C168/2019 (SV)
2019-03-07-JO-  under HAS assessment at PUB stage. E&Y Report was due on 03 March 2019. Awaiting for assessement report from E&Y.
2018-10-17 - TAN : Lack of compliance

1.1 Inclusions
1.1.1 This document specifies requirements for the development, validation and routine control of a low temperature steam and formaldehyde (LTSF) sterilization process for medical devices using a mixture of low temperature steam and formaldehyde as sterilizing agent and which operates below ambient pressure.
NOTE Although the scope of this document is limited to medical devices, it specifies requirements and provides guidance that can be applicable to other products and equipmen...view more

This document provides guidance on auditing management systems, including the principles of auditing,
managing an audit programme and conducting management system audits, as well as guidance on
the evaluation of competence of individuals involved in the audit process. These activities include the
individual(s) managing the audit programme, auditors and audit teams.
It is applicable to all organizations that need to plan and conduct internal or external audits of
management systems or manage...view more

This document specifies:
— the general principles governing the biological evaluation of medical devices within a risk management process;
— the general categorization of medical devices based on the nature and duration of their contact with the body;
— the evaluation of existing relevant data from all sources;
— the identification of gaps in the available data set on the basis of a risk analysis;
— the identification of additional data sets necessary to analyse the biological safety of the...view more

This particular standard is applicable to the basic safety and essential performance of oxygen conserving equipment, hereafter referred to as me equipment, in combination with its accessories intended to conserve supplemental oxygen by delivering gas intermittently and synchronized with the patient's inspiratory cycle, when used in the home healthcare environment. Oxygen conserving equipment is typically used by a lay operator.
This particular standard is also applicable to those accessories in...view more

This document addresses good clinical practice for the design, conduct, recording and reporting of clinical investigations carried out in human subjects to assess the clinical performance or effectiveness and safety of medical devices.
For post-market clinical investigations, the principles set forth in this document are intended to be followed as far as relevant, considering the nature of the clinical investigation (see Annex I).
This document specifies general requirements intended to
— pro...view more

This document provides guidance on the post-market surveillance process and is intended for use by medical device manufacturers. This post-market surveillance process is consistent with relevant international standards, in particular ISO 13485 and ISO 14971. This document describes a proactive and systematic process that manufacturers can use to collect and analyse appropriate data, to provide information for the feedback processes and use this to meet applicable regulatory requirements to gain ...view more

CEN/BT C082/2011:  DOW = DAV + 36 months

1.1 This document specifies the general criteria for tests of sterility on medical devices that have been exposed to a treatment with the sterilizing agent which has been reduced relative to that anticipated to be used in routine sterilization processing. These tests are intended to be performed when defining, validating or maintaining a sterilization process.
1.2 This document is not applicable to:
a) sterility testing for routine release of product that has been subjected to a sterilization ...view more

This document specifies requirements for electrically heated steam boilers manufactured from stainless steel specifically dedicated for generating steam for sterilizers and disinfectors.
This document covers only steam boilers that are heated by immersion heaters and which have a maximum allowable pressure (PS) of not greater than 6 bar, a maximum volume (V) of 1 000 litres and a product of PS ∙ V not greater than 3 000 bar ∙ l.

This document specifies requirements, test methods, instructions for use and marking for multifunction handpieces (colloquially called "syringes") intended to be used in the oral cavity of the patient.
This document does not apply to dental handpieces and motors, intraoral cameras, dental polymerisation lamps, powered scalers, powder jet handpieces, prophy handpieces, suction cannulas and saliva ejectors.

This particular standard is applicable to the basic safety and essential performance of sleep apnoea breathing therapy equipment, hereafter referred to as ME equipment, intended to alleviate the symptoms of patients who suffer from obstructive sleep apnoea by delivering a therapeutic breathing pressure to the patient. Sleep apnoea breathing therapy equipment is intended for use in the home healthcare environment by lay operators as well as in professional healthcare institutions.
This particu...view more

This document specifies a test method and the minimum requirements for the microbicidal activity of a defined disinfection process for the treatment of contaminated textile. This procedure is carried out by using a washing machine as defined in 5.3.2.18 and refers to the disinfection step without prewash. This procedure is not limited to certain types of textile. The suppliers instructions shall be sufficient to allow the method in the standard to be carried out fully (e.g. dosing disinfectant i...view more

This document applies to the basic safety and essential performance of ventilatory high-flow therapy equipment, as defined in 201.3.204, hereafter also referred to as ME equipment, in combination with its accessories:
- intended for use in the home healthcare environment;
- intended for use in professional healthcare facilities;
- intended for use by a lay operator or a healthcare professional operator;
- intended for use with patients who can breathe spontaneously;
- intended for patients ...view more

This European Standard specifies the European Standards to which products have to conform in order to support the claims for microbicidal activity which are referred to in this European Standard.
This European Standard also specifies terms and definitions which are used in European Standards.
It is applicable to products for which activity is claimed against the following microorganisms: vegetative bacteria (including mycobacteria and Legionella), bacterial spores, yeasts, fungal spores and vi...view more

This document specifies requirements and test methods for manual wheelchairs intended to carry one person of mass not greater than 250 kg, including:
—   stand-up manual wheelchairs, and
—   manual wheelchairs for showering and/or toileting.
This document does not apply to custom-made manual wheelchairs or manual wheelchairs intended for use in sports.
This document also specifies requirements and test methods for manual wheelchairs with electrically powered ancillary equipment.

ISO 14708-4:2008 is applicable to active implantable medical devices intended to deliver medicinal substances to site-specific locations within the human body.
ISO 14708-4:2008 is also applicable to some non-implantable parts and accessories of the devices.
The tests that are specified in ISO 14708-4:2008 are type tests intended to be carried out on a sample of a device to show compliance, and are not intended to be used for the routine testing of manufactured products.

This particular standard applies to basic safety and essential performance of cerebral tissue oximeter equipment (t-NIRS), which is a unique application of NIRS in that it employs multiple wavelengths of light energy and time-resolved (frequency or time domain) and/or spatially resolved methods to derive a quantitative measure of tissue oxygen saturation of haemoglobin within the field of the NIRS sensor. This particular standard applies to ME EQUIPMENT used in a hospital environment as well as ...view more

This document specifies general requirements for medical suction equipment that are common to all parts of the 10079 series.
The ISO 10079 series does not apply to the following:
a)   end-pieces such as suction catheters, drains, curettes, Yankauer suckers and suction tips;
b)   syringes;
c)   dental suction equipment;
d)   anaesthetic gas scavenging systems;
e)   laboratory suction;
f)   autotransfusion systems;
g)   mucus extractors including neonatal mucus extractors;
h)   suction equipment w...view more

20200402JO- link to MDD,IVD, AIMD and M/023,M/252,M/295 removed. These links are included in the previous published version  EN ISO 15223-1:2016 - JT003045

CEN/BT C082/2011:  DOW = DAV + 36 months
2018-10-08 - ISO 80601-2-13 is linked to the MDR however, no mandate yet as no Sreq is available

This document specifies a test method and the minimum requirements for fungicidal or yeasticidal activity of chemical disinfectant and antiseptic products that form a homogeneous, physically stable preparation when diluted with hard water, or - in the case of ready-to-use products - with water. Products can only be tested at a concentration of 80 % or less (97 % with a modified method for special cases) as some dilution is always produced by adding the test organisms and interfering substance.
...view more

This device-specific standard specifies requirements for nasal cannulae used in both home-care and hospital environments for the administration of oxygen therapy.

2019-08-21: enquiry period has been extended following modification of the perio in ISO.

This document specifies the procedure for the assessment of medical devices and their constituent materials with regard to their potential to produce irritation by using an in vitro reconstructed human epidermis model.

ISO 14708-5:2010 specifies requirements for safety and performance of active implantable circulatory support devices. It is not applicable to extracorporeal perfusion devices, cardiomyoplasty, heart restraint devices and counter-pulsation devices, such as extra- or intra-aortic balloon pumps.
ISO 14708-5:2010 specifies type tests, animal studies and clinical evaluation requirements.

This document specifies requirements that are applicable to those active implantable medical devices intended to treat bradyarrhythmias and devices that provide therapies for cardiac resynchronization.
The tests that are specified in this document are type tests, and are to be carried out on samples of a device to show compliance.
This document was designed for bradyarrhythmia pulse generators used with endocardial leads or epicardial leads. At the time of this edition, the authors recognized ...view more

This document specifies requirements that are applicable to implantable cardioverter defibrillators and CRT-Ds and the functions of active implantable medical devices intended to treat tachyarrhythmia.
The tests that are specified in ISO 14708 are type tests and are to be carried out on samples of a device to show compliance.
This document was designed for tachyarrhythmia pulse generators used with either endocardial leads or epicardial leads. At the time of this edition, the authors recognize...view more

This document specifies requirements that are applicable to those active implantable medical devices that are intended to treat hearing impairment via electrical stimulation of the auditory pathways. Devices which treat hearing impairment via means other than electrical stimulation are not covered by this document.
The tests that are specified in this document are type tests and are to be carried out on samples of a device to show compliance.
This document is also applicable to non-implantable...view more

ISO 14708-4:2008 is applicable to active implantable medical devices intended to deliver medicinal substances to site-specific locations within the human body.
ISO 14708-4:2008 is also applicable to some non-implantable parts and accessories of the devices.
The tests that are specified in ISO 14708-4:2008 are type tests intended to be carried out on a sample of a device to show compliance, and are not intended to be used for the routine testing of manufactured products.

This document specifies general requirements for medical suction equipment that are common to all parts of the 10079 series.
The ISO 10079 series does not apply to the following:
a)   end-pieces such as suction catheters, drains, curettes, Yankauer suckers and suction tips;
b)   syringes;
c)   dental suction equipment;
d)   anaesthetic gas scavenging systems;
e)   laboratory suction;
f)   autotransfusion systems;
g)   mucus extractors including neonatal mucus extractors;
h)   suction equipment w...view more

This document specifies requirements for check valves intended for single use and used with infusion equipment for gravity-feed infusion and/or with pressure infusion apparatus.
NOTE   The functional requirements in this document also apply to built-in check valves.

This document specifies requirements that are applicable to those active implantable medical devices intended to treat bradyarrhythmias and devices that provide therapies for cardiac resynchronization.
The tests that are specified in this document are type tests, and are to be carried out on samples of a device to show compliance.
This document was designed for bradyarrhythmia pulse generators used with endocardial leads or epicardial leads. At the time of this edition, the authors recognized ...view more

This particular standard applies to basic safety and essential performance of cerebral tissue oximeter equipment (t-NIRS), which is a unique application of NIRS in that it employs multiple wavelengths of light energy and time-resolved (frequency or time domain) and/or spatially resolved methods to derive a quantitative measure of tissue oxygen saturation of haemoglobin within the field of the NIRS sensor. This particular standard applies to ME EQUIPMENT used in a hospital environment as well as ...view more

This document specifies the procedure for the assessment of medical devices and their constituent materials with regard to their potential to produce irritation by using an in vitro reconstructed human epidermis model.