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Further Transition Period Mooted As Eurasian Device System Comes Into Force To Little Fanfare

 
• By Ashley Yeo

After a five-year regulatory transition, access to the Eurasian Economic Union market for new medtech products must now take place via the EAEU system only. But having got off to a slow start, further system transitional measures are now under discussion.     

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The Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) medical device regulations came into effect, as planned, on 1 January 2022.

Since that date, it has no longer been possible for medtech companies to submit applications to register new medical devices...

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