Dear Colleagues,

This is an update for April with a selection of the latest news on medical device regulation changes across Russia and the Eurasian Union countries.

1. Statistics on Medical Devices in Russia in 2017

At the beginning of April 2018, Russian medical device regulator Roszdravnadzor announced statistics and published a detailed report on approvals of medical devices and post-market control for 2017. It detailed about 1403 new medical devices approved in the last year. It should be noted that, compared to previous years, this amount showed a decrease for the first time since 2014.
The published report (link in Russian) also mentions a significant increase of registration rejections in the last year (647 rejections in 2017 against 477 in 2016), caused, according to the regula

tor, by “among other factors, enforcement of Order 11N on requirements on technical file and instruction for use for registration” in March 2017.

Roszdravnadzor also reports positive decisions to amend 3548 registration certificates and 570 registration dossiers in 2017. The total number of files submitted to the agency by medical

device companies was reported as 5262.
Regarding post-market control, the regulator reports about 5124 inspections and 827 examinations (expertises) of medical devices approved on the market which in 89.5 % cases revealed non-conformities of the examined medical devices with current Russian regulations.

2. Price Regulations for State Procurements of Medical Devices in Kazakhstan

At the end of March 2018, the Ministry of Health of Kazakhstan enforced Order #112 (link in Russian) and updated requirements on the registration of prices for medicines and medical devices for state procurements within the guaranteed free medical care. According to the document, medicines and medical devices may be purchased at prices not exceeding those established by the competent authority. The requirement is applicable for purchases by government institutions within the guaranteed free medical care or using health insurance funds.
Updated rules and guidelines for price and mark-up registrations have been published previously (link in Russian). Prices may be submitted online and should be registered by the competent authority within ten working days. The deadline for submission of information on prices was set as 27 April 2018 by the competent Kazakhstan authority (National Centre of Expertise).

3. Several Eurasian Medical Device Regulations Approved

There was no breakthrough in start of functioning of Eurasian medical device regulations model in April 2018 compared to previous month; however, the Eurasian Commission approved several “third-level” regulations which come into force in May 2018:

-Regulation #46 on nomenclature of medical devices in EAEU (link in Russian);
-Regulation #47 on classification on adverse events for medical devices (link in Russian);
-Regulation #48 on classification of documents of the registration dossier (link in Russian).

In addition, one other interesting and detailed document published in April 2018 is the draft of the updated guidelines/recommendations for the expertise of medical devices for registration according to Eurasian requirements (link in Russian); however, as of the end of April 2018 the final approved version of the document is not available.

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