Mar 27, 2018

EU regulations: Documentation and implementation overburden microtechnology industry

Mar 27, 2018


A major complication from the point of view of the European microtechnology organizations are the high documentation and reporting obligations that EU regulations or directives entail. More than half (56.9%) of the companies and institutes say that the documentation and reporting obligations impede their business operations.

Almost half (49.2%) of the organizations are challenged by the specific qualification and expertise that is required for implementation. Implementation also causes additional costs for a large part (41.5%) of the industry and impedes daily business (32.2%). Even the interpretation of regulations and directives is difficult for more than a quarter (26.2%) of the responding microtechnology organizations.

Source: IVAM Survey 2018

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