In less than nine months, manufacturers of medical devices containing certain types of tissues of animal origin will need to ensure that their products comply with newly mandated specifications. They should not wait until the last minute to begin this work. This article discusses the important issues that will need to be addressed to ensure effective compliance with the requirements.

In September 2000 the EMI Directive was accepted and member states now have to implement it within national legislation by April 2002. One of the European Commission’s main goals was to encourage competition and innovation in the field of electronic payments while maintaining prudent supervision requirements. The Directive sets out to achieve this in two ways: first, it introduces the concept o...

This paper presents an assessment of the potential impact of the EUs biofuel directive on European land use and biodiversity. In a spatially explicit analysis, it is determined which ecologically valuable land use types are likely to be directly replaced by biofuel crops. In addition, it is determined which land use types may be indirectly replaced by biofuel crops through competition over land...

Obtaining approval for a multinational vaccine trial from an ethics committee and the national competent authority of different Member States of the European Union (EU) is challenging under clinical trial Directive 2001/20/EC because of the differences in the implementation of the directive in national laws of Member States. In this review the national differences in requirements for ethical an...

In the framework of European law telemedicine is, simultaneously, a health service and an information service, therefore, both regulations apply. In what concerns healthcare and the practice of medicine there are no uniform regulations at the European level. Concerning health services the most relevant achievement to regulate this domain is Directive 2011/24/EU. In what regards information and ...

This Working Party was set up under Article 29 of Directive 95/46/EC. It is an independent European advisory body on data protection and privacy. Its tasks are described in Article 30 of Directive 95/46/EC and Article 15 of Directive 2002/58/EC. The secretariat is provided by Directorate C (Fundamental Rights and Union Citizenship) of the European Commission, Directorate General Justice, B-1049...

In the last 20 years standards in the context of information security rapidly developed and reached a high level of maturity. Information security also is an important task in the context of data protection, as outlined by the European Data Protection Directive 95/46/EC. However, this Directive does not explicitly relate to standards in the context of information security, security requirements...

www.aafp.org/afp Volume 91, Number 7 ◆ April 1, 2015 Case Scenario L.S. is a 70-year-old man with advanced chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. He is intubated and unconscious in the intensive care unit with pneumonia complicated further by acute renal failure. His advance directive, completed seven years ago when he was highly functional, indicates that he wants lifesustaining treatments. He...