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Does my medical device need MEM radiation-practice operating licence and radiological protection officer licence in Guatemala?

Describe your device to check whether MEM radiation-practice operating licence and radiological protection officer licence may apply, why, what facts are missing, and which official source to review.

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Preliminary applicability · country-specific scope

What you receive

Not just a yes or no

A route-by-route answer. Separate product certificates, dossier evidence, import documents, and facility licences stay separate.

Trigger reasoning. See which product facts matter and which missing facts prevent a reliable conclusion.

Official starting points. Open the regulator or government sources behind the maintained country matrix.

Maintained country rule

What this MEM radiation-practice operating licence and radiological protection officer licence check is screening

Separates product, supplier, import, facility, source-holder, and operator radiation obligations. Applies to the facility, operator, or installation rather than only the product.

Source association reviewed. The source association has been reviewed. This does not verify every rule, date or product-specific conclusion; read the cited provisions and their limits.

Requirement family: Ionizing radiation and radioactive sources
Regulatory object: radiation practice or use site
Maintained rule status: mandatory for use site
Useful product facts: X-ray or radioactive source, modality, energy, import purpose, installation site, and operator role.

Under the Ley para el Control, Uso y Aplicación de Radioisótopos y Radiaciones Ionizantes and its Reglamento, the Ministerio de Energía y Minas (Dirección General de Energía) licenses radiation practices by type: type I at US$500 and 90 days (trámite 1408) and type II at US$200 and 90 days (trámite 1409). A separate licence is required for the Encargado de Protección Radiológica at US$50 and 30 days, and the applicant must also licence its operators and demonstrate the acquisition of a suitable detector. The obligation falls on the practice and its personnel, not on the device: a hospital cannot operate the installation without the licence even where the device carries an inscription.

How to read the answer

Classification is only the first layer

A device may have one medical risk class and still trigger separate radio, electrical, measurement, radiation, environmental, import, or installation requirements. The checker keeps each regulatory object separate.

Product approval

A certificate or approval attached to the finished product, component, or radio host.

Dossier or import evidence

Testing can belong inside the medical dossier, while some documents apply to each shipment.

Site or operator licence

Radiation, installation, use, or measurement controls may apply to a facility or operator.

Country-specific scope

Other Guatemala routes to check

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Electrical safety

Medical electrical safety and EMC evidence inside the sanitary inscription

Evidence is normally handled inside the medical-device registration route.

Source association reviewed

Reviewed source associations

Use these authority pages to confirm current scope, technical rules, application routes, and transition dates. A linked source does not turn a preliminary result into an authority decision.

MEM — Dirección General de Energía

radiation-practice operating licence, type I

MEM — Dirección General de Energía

radiation-practice operating licence, type II (medical radiodiagnosis)

MEM — Dirección General de Energía

licence for the radiological protection officer (EPR)

About this checker

A preliminary tool, not a regulatory determination

Describe the complete product — radio, power, measurement, radiation, battery, materials, accessories, intended use, import route, and existing approvals. The free checker maps those facts to the maintained Guatemala scheme matrix and links each route to its maintained source associations, with reviewed, candidate and unresolved states shown separately.

Use the result to identify questions and official sources. Final scope can depend on exact models, modules, bands, components, claims, HS codes, import structure, installation site, and current authority interpretation.

Is this the same as medical device classification in Guatemala?: No. Risk classification determines the main medical-device pathway. This checker runs after classification and looks for additional product certificates, dossier evidence, import documents, and facility or operator licences.
Does “no separate certificate” mean no testing is required?: No. Safety, EMC, performance, or other evidence can still be required inside the medical-device dossier even when there is no separate national product certificate.
Is the result an official regulatory determination?: No. It is a preliminary applicability assessment. Review the linked official source and confirm the final route with the relevant authority, certification body, importer, or regulatory professional.