EU MDR Failings Aired At German Parliamentary Hearing

Liese’s Proposal For EU Medtech System Adds Timely Context To Debate

MPs from across Germany’s political spectrum grilled a panel of national medtech stakeholders on the problems of the MDR and the EU regulatory system during an hour-long sitting of the Bundestag’s health committee on 5 June.

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A parliamentary question from the center-right CDU/CSU party (Union) in Germany’s lower house (Bundestag) on the high cost and needlessly burdensome compliance requirements the Medical Device Regulation (2017/745) prompted an instructive Q+A during a hearing on the state of the EU regulatory system.

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