Medical devices : Agreement within reach in Council

At 10:00 on 19 June, crowning two and a half years of discussions and 50 days of meetings, the member states' health ministers will attempt to agree on proposals for a regulation on medical devices and in vitro medical devices. After a tour de table, they should obtain a partial general approach (a consolidated position not including recitals due to lack of time) on these texts, which govern the placing on the market and follow-up of health products for internal…