EU-China Medical Device Expert Roundtable (MDER) III Plenary Meeting

2014-09-01 | Beijing

MDER is with the purpose to study and compare the EU and China Medical Device regulatory requirements, and then give recommendations to both EU and China authorities, for a harmonized regulatory system. MDER III focus on below topics -

·         WG 1 : Medical Device Registration submission requirements, and product changes’ registration

·         WG 2 : Clinical evaluation

·         WG 3 : In-Vitro Diagnostic (IVD)

At the plenary, each working group presented their findings and recommendations

CFDA and DG SANCO summarized at the end -

CFDA:

Ÿ   CIMDR serves as a wonderful platform in which Chinese participation has increased. It embodies bilateral wished and benefits CFDA-DG SANCO cooperation;

Ÿ   Though we cannot answer all these questions one by one today, we will make detailed research afterwards;

Ÿ   Training programs in the industry will be launched in many ways;

Ÿ   Details should be specified in future regulations;

Ÿ   A series of new regulations is under its way to be introduced and comments will be called;

Ÿ   Many other channels are available for you to make suggestion to CFDA after CIMDR, such as COCIR.

DG SANCO:the success of this meeting is dedicated to the following factors

Ÿ   Great cooperation among working groups;

Ÿ   It is very clear and concrete with only three subjects for discussion;

Ÿ   The experiences of previous two CIMDR meetings are learned.