Now that an initial version of a code of conduct for notified bodies in the EU has been agreed, will it be enough to convince the European Commission that these testing and certification organisations are on their own able to raise standards across the sector to a sufficiently high level? In other words, will the code be enough to stop the commission and EU lawmakers from introducing tighter notified body-related legislation?
If we knew the answers to these questions, we could go a long way towards predicting how radical the notified body-related revisions contained in the recast of the medical device directives that the commission is working on are likely to be...
