Armenia medical device regulations
Official sources linkedMinistry of Health rules and guidance for medical device market access, registration, and lifecycle compliance. Each code opens a metadata page with the official source and readable HTML when available.
| Code | Regulation | Category | Effective | Provenance |
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| Government Decree No. 429-Ն of 30 March 2023 | Import of Medical Devices into Armenia — Procedure and List of Documents Required for Expert Examination ՀՀ կառավարության 2023 թվականի մարտի 30-ի N 429-Ն որոշումը. Adopted under Art. 47.2(1) and (4) of the Law on Medical Aid and Servicing and under Annex 9, points 3 and 9, of the Treaty on the Eurasian Economic Union. Annex No. 1 is the procedure for importing medical devices into Armenia (Chapters 1–2, numbered clauses 1–30, with Forms No. 1–3 and the table of foreign-economic-activity commodity codes); Annex No. 2 is the list of documents required for the expert examination (documents for all imported devices — import application and an invoice stating the series/lot/batch, quantities and EAEU commodity codes — and the case-specific documents, including the state-registration certificate or its requisites). The ARLIS page records no publication date; the consolidated expression carries the amendment of the preamble by Decision No. 1731-Ն of 12.10.2023. The instrument's own text entrusts the expert examination to the Ministry of Health; SCDMTE is the expert organisation and the registry label, not the registering authority. | Registration | — | Official |
| EEC Council Decision No. 144 of 24 December 2021 | Rules for Marketing Authorization and Expert Examination of Medical Devices (restated) The Rules for marketing authorization and expert examination of the security, quality and efficiency of medical devices in the Eurasian Economic Union, in the restated form they take under Decision No. 144 of the Council of the Eurasian Economic Commission of 24 December 2021, which amends the Rules first approved by Decision No. 46 of 12 February 2016. Chapters I–IX (general provisions; procedures for marketing authorization and expert examination; approval of the expert report; conflicts over approval; amendment of the marketing-authorization application and of the authorized documents; issue of duplicates; re-issue of the expert report; suspension or cancellation of validity) and Annexes 1–13 (the forms and templates annexed to the Rules). Ingested from the Commission's own English PDF, whose running title is "Amendments-MD-registration". An EAEU instrument applying across the Union; filed under Armenia because round 207's triage placed the lead here, and it is the instrument Armenia operates alongside Decree No. 429-Ն. | Registration | — | Official |
| Protocol of 29 December 2025 | Protocol Amending Article 11 of the EAEU Agreement on Medical Devices — Extended Transition Periods Արձանագրություն, signed at Moscow on 29 December 2025, amending Art. 11 of the Agreement of 23 December 2014 on common principles and rules for the circulation of medical devices within the Eurasian Economic Union. Art. 1 replaces "2025" with "2027" in the first paragraph and "2026" with "2028" in the third and fourth paragraphs; Art. 2 provides for provisional application ten days after signature and for entry into force on the last written notification of completed internal procedures. Ingested from the Commission legal portal's Armenian DOCX, which is the expression the portal publishes for Armenia; the original is drawn up in Russian. Filed under Armenia because round 207's triage placed the lead here. | General | — | Official |
| ՀՕ-42, adopted 4 March 1996 | Law of the Republic of Armenia on Medical Aid and Servicing of the Population Ամբողջական (համախմբված) տեքստ, served by ARLIS as an official incorporation («Պաշտոնական ինկորպորացիա») and carrying amendment notes up to Law ՀՕ-469-Ն of 17.12.2025. Chapters 1–12 (including Chapters 4.1, 8.1 and 10, the last inserted by Law ՀՕ-304-Ն of 06.07.2022) and Arts. 1–50. This is the statutory basis of the device regime: Arts. 45–47.4 govern state regulation of the circulation of medical devices, their registration and the expert examination of their safety, quality and efficacy (Art. 46), their clinical and clinical-laboratory testing (Art. 47), manufacture (47.1), import (47.2 — the provision Decree No. 429-Ն implements), state control (47.3) and installation, repair and technical and metrological servicing (47.4). The ARLIS expression also carries the system's own editorial note at the head of the text ("the Law has a transitional provision, see Art. 51"); the consolidated body ends at Art. 50 and the note is reproduced as the source states it. | General | — | Official |
| Law of 27 December 1997 | Law of the Republic of Armenia on State Duty Համախմբված տեքստ of the Law on State Duty, Chapters I–VII and Arts. 1–44, from ARLIS. The duty that medical-device registration attracts is set in Art. 16, item 35 ("state registration of medicines, pharmaceutical products, medical-purpose items, medical instruments, devices and equipment"), where sub-items թ), ժ) and ժա) set the duty for class 1, class 2 and class 3 medical items, instruments, devices and equipment at 10, 20 and 30 times the base duty respectively, and sub-item ը) sets it at 20 times the base duty for in vitro diagnostics. Relevant to the market because it fixes the statutory fee in the registration pathway governed by Decree No. 429-Ն. | Registration | — | Official |
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