In view of the upcoming European Parliament Environment Committee vote, COCIR asks for MEPs' support to ensure the continuous availability of highly innovative and complex healthcare technology products in Europe securing essential exemptions for applications. 

Because of the comparably long life cycle expectation of medical devices and the many potential failure mechanisms (e.g. of substitutes) affecting long-term reliability, COCIR considers it is indispensable to adopt the recommendation summarised in the 2009 ERA Report.