EU: Expert Panels on medical devices and in vitro diagnostics transferred to European Medicines Agency (EMA)

On 1 March, the Secretariat of the Commission’s expert panels on medical devices and in vitro diagnostic medical devices has been handed over from the Joint Research Centre (JRC) to the European Medicines Agency (EMA).

The JRC had been entrusted by DG Health and Food Safety (DG SANTE) to establish the panels, define guidance documents, operational workflows, and necessary IT tools as well as to launch their mandatory advisory functions.

The background of the handover is the extended mandate of EMA on crisis preparedness and management of medicinal products and medical devices (Regulation (EU) 2022/123), developed as a reaction to the COVID-19 pandemic in the EU.

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Handover of expert panels on medical devices and in vitro diagnostics from the Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC) to the European Medicines Agency (EMA)