What is EUDAMED? A practical guide to the EU medical device database

EUDAMED — the European Database on Medical Devices — is the central registry the European Commission built to make the EU medical-device market transparent. It underpins the two regulations that govern the sector: the Medical Device Regulation (Regulation (EU) 2017/745, "MDR") and the In Vitro Diagnostic Regulation (Regulation (EU) 2017/746, "IVDR"). The Commission hosts the public site at ec.europa.eu/tools/eudamed.

What EUDAMED actually contains

EUDAMED is organised into six modules, each covering one slice of the device lifecycle:

• Actor registration — manufacturers, authorised representatives, importers and system/procedure-pack producers. Every registered actor receives a SRN (Single Registration Number).
• UDI / Device registration — devices identified by their UDI (Unique Device Identification), the GS1/HIBCC/ICCBBA code that makes a device traceable from factory to clinic.
• Notified Bodies and Certificates — the organisations that assess conformity, and the certificates they issue.
• Clinical Investigations and Performance Studies.
• Vigilance — incident and field-safety reporting.
• Market Surveillance — competent-authority oversight.

For anyone doing due diligence — a hospital procurement team, a distributor vetting a supplier, a competitor mapping a market — the first three modules are where the answers live: who is behind a device, what they have registered, and whether a valid certificate stands behind it.

Why searching it directly is hard

The public EUDAMED interface is built for single-record lookups, not for exploration. There is no fast way to ask "every Class III manufacturer in France" or "all devices in this EMDN category" — the questions that matter when you are sizing a market or screening a supply chain.

That is the gap MD Atlas closes. We index the public EUDAMED records — a large and continuously growing subset of the database, not the complete back-office dataset the Commission maintains — and make them searchable in milliseconds, with filters the official site does not offer.

A few starting points:

• Browse registered manufacturers
• Search devices by risk class, country and nomenclature
• Manufacturers registered in France

How to verify a registration in seconds

1. Search for the company or device name, or paste an SRN or UDI-DI.
2. Open the record to see the registered actor, its role, and the linked devices and certificates.
3. Cross-check the certificate status before you rely on a device being lawfully on the EU market.

Every figure MD Atlas shows is drawn from the public EUDAMED data and links back to the underlying record, so you can always trace a claim to its source. For the authoritative, real-time position — and for the current state of mandatory-use rollout across the modules — the European Commission's EUDAMED portal remains the reference.