REG-EU-001 · Version 1
Countries authorising SUMD reprocessing
Ten countries in the 30-country European study area had notified national rules permitting some form of regulated single-use medical-device reprocessing through January 2025.
- Dataset
- Countries and regulation
- Geography
- European study area
- Jurisdiction
- Not reported
- Organisation
- Not reported
- Device
- Not reported
- Programme
- Not reported
- Value
- 10 of 30 study countries
- Unit
- countries
- Period / horizon
- Notifications through January 2025
- Price year
- Not reported
- Date checked
- 2026-09-17
- Source date
- 2025-01-01
What this evidence supports
Ten countries in the 30-country European study area had notified national rules permitting some form of regulated single-use medical-device reprocessing through January 2025.
Count of countries listed as authorising a national pathway.
What it does not establish
It does not establish hospital uptake, successful clinical-use volumes, or savings.
Permission is a legal status, not evidence of hospital participation or realised savings.
Confidence
High: The country count and national pathways were checked against the Commission page; national restrictions still vary.
Calculator use
EU uptake; Transition Finance · Authorising-country baseline
Sources
Public update history
Version 1 · Published
Initial public evidence record · 17/09/2026