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Free · No signup · Official source linksDoes my medical device need HMS legal-metrology conformity assessment and verification (lög nr. 91/2006) in Iceland?
Describe your device to check whether HMS legal-metrology conformity assessment and verification (lög nr. 91/2006) may apply, why, what facts are missing, and which official source to review.
1 maintained routes1 official source links
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 HMS legal-metrology conformity assessment and verification (lög nr. 91/2006) check is screening
Checks whether a clinical measuring function needs model approval or initial/periodic verification. 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
- Legal metrology
- Regulatory object
- legal measuring instruments
- Maintained rule status
- mandatory for use site
- Useful product facts
- Measured quantity, clinical decision use, units, accuracy claim, and whether the value drives treatment.
Lög nr. 91/2006 um mælingar, mæligrunna og vigtarmenn governs legal metrology in Iceland: 4. gr. 1. mgr. gives the minister overall charge and puts implementation in the hands of the Húsnæðis-, mannvirkja- og skipulagsstofnun (HMS), and 4. gr. 2. mgr. d-lið gives that body market surveillance and the contacts with other EEA surveillance authorities. Article 10 requires conformity assessment to be completed and demonstrably recorded before a measuring instrument is first offered for sale or put into use, and Article 14 requires an instrument in use to be confirmed as compliant by löggilding. Article 17 gives HMS supervision, which it may contract to independent, competent bodies, and Article 31 sets a löggildingargjald of 15-25% of the service fee charged to the instrument's owner when verification is carried out. A sphygmomanometer or a weighing instrument used in medical practice therefore needs its own Icelandic verification; the CE mark on a medical device does not discharge that duty.
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.
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 Iceland routes to check
Electrical safety
Low Voltage Directive exclusion for medical electrical equipment — electrical safety carried inside MDR conformity assessment
Evidence is normally handled inside the medical-device registration route.
Source association awaiting review
EMC
Reglugerð nr. 303/2018 um rafsegulsamhæfi — EMC carried inside the MDR route for a medical device
Evidence is normally handled inside the medical-device registration route.
Source association reviewed
Wireless / radio
Fjarskiptastofa radio-equipment market access (reglugerð nr. 944/2019)
Applies when the product, feature, component, or use is in scope.
Source association reviewed
Radiation
Geislavarnir ríkisins licence for ionizing-radiation sources and radiation devices
Applies to the facility, operator, or installation rather than only the product.
Source association reviewed
Environmental / battery
Producer responsibility and the úrvinnslugjald as a condition of placing electrical and electronic equipment on the Icelandic market
Maintained as a mandatory pre-market 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.
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 Iceland 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 Iceland?
- 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.
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