Eudamed - A Moving Target But On Track For March 2020 Partial Go-Live

While Eudamed is largely on track, there could be a few months of delay in the availability of certain critical parts of the EU's updated medical device database. Stakeholders are working toward a May 26, 2020, deadline for the full application of the EU Medical Devices Regulation, including Eudamed.

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Modules for clinical investigation and market surveillance might be only “partly or not at all available” at the time of application of the two EU medtech regulation (the MDR, and its sister IVDs regulation in force two years later), and not fully operational until few months after the respective deadlines. This is due to “workability issues,” the European Commission says in its Rolling Plan.

The plan was updated recently, without fanfare, on the Commission's website. The aim is still to have the updated Eudamed go live on March 25, 2020, i.e. in...

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