On 29 October 2010, the EU-China High Level Forum on Medical Devices Standardization, jointly organized by the European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardization (CENELEC), the Beijing Institute of Medical Device Testing (BIMT), the European Coordination Committee of the Imaging, Electromedical and Healthcare IT Industry (COCIR) and the China Center for Pharmaceutical International Exchange (CCPIE) was held in Beijing under the auspices of the Chinese SFDA and European Commission DG SANCO cooperation.
The objective of the Forum was to exchange information, viewpoints, experiences and concerns on standardization – with a specific focus on the IEC 60601-1 and its collateral and product specific standards – in order to develop a common understanding of how to jointly promote the use of such documents considered to be state-of-the-art for medical electrical equipment.
Mr. Klaus Ziegler gave a presentation on the European standardization system, its basic principles, actors and how standards are being developed in Europe.
