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The Ministry of Health of Ukraine has submitted for public discussion the draft of the updated National Classifier NC 024: 2019 “Classifier of medical devices”

On April 6, 2021, the draft of the updated National Classifier NC 024: 2019 “Classifier of Medical Devices” (hereinafter – NC 024: 2019) was published on the website of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine.

The current version of NC 024: 2019 was approved by the order of the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade of Ukraine dated 05.02.2019 № 159, developed by the POLYTECHMED at the request of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine.

NC 024: 2019 is developed on the basis of the international classifier of medical devices Global Medical Device Nomenclature (hereinafter – GMDN), which is used in 70 countries, including most European countries and the United States. Currently, the range is used by about 7,500 manufacturers, it contains about a million items.

GMDN is a system of generally accepted international descriptors used to identify medical devices; is a system of names for products used to diagnose, prevent, monitor, treat or alleviate human diseases and injuries.

Scope of application of NC 024: 2019 – circulation of medical devices on the domestic market of Ukraine.
NC 024: 2019 is designed to unambiguously identify medical devices by manufacturers, conformity assessment bodies, state market surveillance and control bodies, procurement organizations, consumers, users, etc. and to avoid abuse in classifying other devices as medical.

NС 024: 2019 is an adapted translation of a part of the list of medical devices included in the international GMDN classifier (about 27 thousand items).

Each of the positions consists of five parts: code, term name in Ukrainian, term description in English, term name in Ukrainian, term description in English.

When determining the subject of procurement NC 024: 2019 is used together with the national classifier of Ukraine SC 021: 2015 “Unified Procurement Dictionary”, approved by the order of the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade of Ukraine from 23.12.2015 № 1749.

The wording of NC 024: 2019 in the new edition does not require changes to other national classifiers of Ukraine.

As noted in the text of the explanatory note to the project, the basis for the presentation of NC 024: 2019 in the new edition are:

  • a significant amount of editorial technical edits;
  • receipt of proposals for editing some items of the classifier, the descriptive part of the terms from market participants in medical devices;
  • addition of new codes to the basic European document

Updating and reviewing the information contained in NC 024: 2019 was carried out from May 2020 to March 2021.

Development of a new version of NC 024: 2019, taking into account the comments sent by the letter of the Ministry of Economy dated 29.05.2020 № 3411-10 / 33755-07, will take 2 months.

NC 024: 2019 shall enter into force 30 calendar days from the date of signing the order of the Ministry of Economic Development, Trade and Agriculture of Ukraine on its approval.

NC 024: 2019 in the new edition will be published on the website of the Ministry of Economic Development, Trade and Agriculture of Ukraine.

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