No medical device may be placed on the market or put into service in France unless it complies with the essential health and safety requirements referred to in section 5 of this chapter which apply to it. It must also be duly supplied, correctly installed, maintained and used in accordance with its intended purpose.
This conformity is assessed and certified either in France, in accordance with the procedures laid down in this chapter, or in another Member State of the European Union or party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area by the provisions transposing the provisions of the directives relating to these devices into the domestic law of the State in which they were implemented.
A medical device which is intended by its manufacturer to be used both as a medical device within the meaning of this Title and as personal protective equipment within the meaning of Articles R. 4311-12 to R. 4311-14 of the Labour Code also complies with the essential requirements mentioned in Article R. 4312-24 of this Code.
Medical devices which are also machines within the meaning of 1° of Article R. 4311-4 of the French Labour Code also comply with the essential requirements mentioned in Article R. 4312-1 of this Code, if a particular risk exists and if these essential requirements are more appropriate and restrictive than those of this Title.