Covington & Burling posted March 25th that European Commission plans to postpone the application date of the Medical Device Regulations in response to COVID-19 will be postponed one year due to Covid-19. Below is a link to the Commission’s March 25th press release:
https://audiovisual.ec.europa.eu/en/video/I-187348
With EMA invoking the Business Continuity Plan on March 11th, one might anticipate that the implementation of the CTIS audit could also be delayed from the current start date of December 2020.