Lebanon medical device registration resources

Official clock: the Ministry's service record for the device entry/import approval publishes the transaction period (مدة انتهاء المعاملة) as 'between one week and two weeks' and accepts applications on all official working days. The same record fixes the documents — the MPH12-26 form duly completed, an invoice giving the device name and specifications (new and unused, or renewed) and the exporting company, the Lebanese Atomic Energy Authority's approval for import or export as requested, the device specification catalogue and a letter from the party for whom the device or materials are requested — the condition that the invoice bear the Atomic Energy stamp, and the LBP 1,000 fiscal stamp.

The record states weeks rather than working days, so the range is published as 7 to 14 calendar days; it is the only published period for the general device entry route.

The clock is route-wide: the Ministerial Decision 1506/1 Art. Three levels change the documentary burden — which European-system conformity documents are accepted under Annex 1 by level — not the period, and the service record draws no distinction between devices of different levels.

Related service records publish no period at all: the sterile medical instruments import (MPH212-9) and the medical or laboratory reagents import (MPH212-3) both leave the processing-period field blank, while medical consumables for a health centre (MPH311-1) publishes 'خلال 15 يوم' — within 15 days. Only the general device entry/import record publishes a period, which is why that record is the bound clock for this row.

The 1-2 week period is the permit clock, not a promise for the whole first-entry path: before the permit the goods must satisfy the Industrial Research Institute's conformity certificate (Decision 455/1 Arts. One, Three, Four) — the Ministry's sterile-instrument record names an 'إفادة مطابقة من معهد البحوث' — and an implantable must already be registered with the Department of Programs and Projects (Decision 455/1 Art. Six), neither of which carries a published period.

The service record carries no revision date and no instrument read states the period, so it is published as the current service catalogue's own statement; the state of the Ministry's service catalogue and of the registration system after the country's recent crises is recorded in unresolved rather than assumed.