Royal Decree 192/2023 on Medical Devices, which adapts Spanish national regulations to the provisions of Regulation (EU) 2017/745, was published on 22 March 2023. The new Royal Decree identifies the competent authority in Spain for medical devices, expands the scope of some of the provisions to new kind of products and introduces provisions regarding the manufacture of in-house products and the reprocessing of single-use products, among other significant changes.

The Spanish Agency for Medicines and Health Products has streamlined the procedure for applying for the national code (NC) of centrally authorized medicinal products. In order to have more efficient management, this change has been included in a guide containing information on the documents required for the assignment of the NC. From now on it will be possible to send the NC application as soon as the final texts have been adopted by the applicant and the regulatory agencies. Finally, it will also be possible to present the European Commission’s decision in English.