{"id":6845,"date":"2025-01-26T12:13:30","date_gmt":"2025-01-26T11:13:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/darkgreen-crane-601020.hostingersite.com\/rek-kulmu\/clinical-investigations-of-medical-devices-mdr\/"},"modified":"2026-09-17T15:31:21","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T13:31:21","slug":"clinical-investigations-of-medical-devices-mdr","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/rekportalen.no\/en\/rek-kulmu\/clinical-investigations-of-medical-devices-mdr\/","title":{"rendered":"Clinical investigations of medical devices (MDR)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Research ethics assessment of clinical investigations of medical devices regulated by MDR<\/h2>\n<p>The EU <a href=\"https:\/\/eur-lex.europa.eu\/legal-content\/EN\/TXT\/PDF\/?uri=CELEX:32017R0745\">Medical Device Regulation (Regulation (EU) 2017\/745, MDR<\/a>) entered into force on 26 May 2021. Applications for clinical investigations of medical devices covered by the MDR are assessed in accordance with the Regulation and related legislation.<\/p>\n<p>On behalf of the research ethics authorities, REK KULMU conducts a research ethics assessment of applications covered by the MDR.<\/p>\n<p><strong>MDR resource pages:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dmp.no\/en\/medical-devices\">The Norwegian Medical Products Agency\u2019s (NOMA (DMP) website<\/a>, including an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dmp.no\/en\/medical-devices\/clinical-investigation-of-medical-devices\/introduction-to-clinical-investigation-of-a-medical-device\">introduction to clinical investigations of medical devices<\/a> and a regulatory guide<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/health.ec.europa.eu\/medical-devices-sector\/new-regulations\/guidance-mdcg-endorsed-documents-and-other-guidance_en\">Guidance documents<\/a> issued by the Medical Device Coordination Group (MDCG)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dmp.no\/globalassets\/documents\/medisinsk-utstyr\/klinisk-utproving\/regulatorisk-veiviser-for-kliniske-utprovinger-etter-mdr.pdf\">Regulatory guide for clinical investigations under the MDR<\/a> (in Norwegian only)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Updated 17.09.2026<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Research ethics assessment of clinical investigations of medical devices regulated by MDR The EU Medical Device Regulation (Regulation (EU) 2017\/745, MDR) entered into force on 26 May 2021. 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