Wadding, gauze, bandages and similar articles (for example, dressings, adhesive plasters, poultices), impregnated or coated with pharmaceutical substances or put up in forms or packings for retail sale for medical, surgical, dental or veterinary purposes. (HS code(s): 3005); Instruments and appliances used in medical, surgical, dental or veterinary sciences, including scintigraphic apparatus, other electro-medical apparatus and sight-testing instruments. (HS code(s): 9018); Apparatus based on the use of X-rays or of alpha, beta or gamma radiations, whether or not for medical, surgical, dental or veterinary uses, including radiography or radiotherapy apparatus, X-ray tubes and other X-ray generators, high tension generators, control panels and desks, screens, examination or treatment tables, chairs and the like. (HS code(s): 9022); Medical, surgical, dental or veterinary furniture (for example, operating tables, examination tables, hospital beds with mechanical fittings, dentists' chairs); barbers' chairs and similar chairs, having rotating as well as both reclining and elevating movements; parts of the foregoing articles. (HS code(s): 9402)

Draft amendments to the Rules of classification of medical devices depending on the potential risk of use

The Draft amendments to the Rules of classification of medical devices depending on the potential risk of use apply to medical devices and provide for the following: clarification of the concepts; clarification of classification criteria for medical devices for in vitro diagnostics; establishment of criteria and conditions for the classification of software that is a medical device; clarification of classification of medical devices.