EUROPEAN AND INTERNATIONAL STANDARDS ON MEDICAL DEVICES FOR DENTISTRY

Standards are produced for many different products and services, and may be created for company, national, re-gional or global application. In Europe there are three dif-ferent categories of standard: International standard – a standard adopted by an international standardization organi-zation; European standard – a standard adopted by a Eu-ropean standardization body; National standard – a stand-ard adopted by a national standardization body and made available to the public. Harmonized standards play a spe-cial role in the EU. A harmonised standard is a European standard elaborated on the basis of a request from the Eu-ropean Commission to a recognised European Standards Organisation to develop a European standard that provides solutions for compliance with a legal provision. Most stand