The EC Certification of Conformity (CoC) is the formal certification of a Notified Body (NB) in the EU to declare the approval of a medical device or In-vitro diagnostic. With the publication of the CoC, the NB allows the manufacturer to affix the CE-mark onto the product and label of the product and the product is cleared for sales in the EU.
As this CoC is the permit for selling the poduct in the EU, CoC’s are very often subject to falsification, especially in the COVID-19 crisis.
A CoC is established only by a NB and the format is defined by the NB. With this, it becomes obvious why so many different layouts and presentations of CoC’s are out there but makes it harder to distinguish a compliant CoC from others.
There is some confusion around what can and should be certified.
A Notified Body (NB) can certify the conformance to the regulation for medical devices and in-vitro diagnostics. This is true for all medical devices, except risk class I medical devices. For risk class I medical devices, a manufacturer can request a voluntary attestation of confomity (AoC) from its NB.
So, there are two types of certificates out there:
The Medical Device Regulation MDR 2017/745 in Annex IX defines the technical documentation assessment and in Annex X a type-examination. Both examinations will subsequently lead, in a successful case, to the award of a certificate.
Falsified CoC’s can be spotted in multiple ways and most certainly, when the above points are not considered on the certificate. The most commonly seen falsified data on a CoC are:
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