You will need to establish and maintain a Medical Quality Management System compliant with the 93/42 EEC Medical Device Directives. The European authorities accept the ISO 9001:2000 and the ISO 13485:2003 quality standards as a basis upon which the Medical Quality Management System can be built. However, you should avoid the hassle of reinventing the wheel and use ISO 13485:2003, which is specific of the medical devices industry.
A Notified Body will perform the Medical Quality Management System audit before you are authorized to affix the CE mark on the devices.
The 93/42 EEC Medical Device Directives allows for different scopes of your Medical Quality Management System: full quality system, production quality system, or product quality system. Usually the implementation of a full quality system is the most convenient approach.
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