Philippines medical device regulations
Official sources linkedFDA Philippines 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CMDR Charter | Center for Medical Device Regulation (CMDR) Registration Guidelines Citizen’s-charter sheet for initial Certificate of Medical Device Registration (CMDR) applications: fee Php 7,500.00, 5-year validity, a 12-item checklist of requirements (notarized application form, letter of authorization, proof of business registration, ISO 13485 certificate, and CESP/other technical documents per AO 2018-0002 Annexes), and the client-steps process table totalling 80 working days. | Registration | 2023 | Official |
| LTO Charter XVI | License to Operate (LTO) Guidelines for Medical Device Establishments Citizen’s-charter sheet (section XVI of the FDA charter compilation) for the initial License to Operate for medical device traders, distributors, wholesalers, and importers via the FDA eServices portal: a 5-item checklist (application per AO 2020-0017, proof of business registration, site master file, and LTO fees scaled to capitalization) and the client-steps process table totalling 14 working days. | Registration | 2023 | Official |
| FDA Circular 2021-017 | Reference List of Class A Medical Devices FDA Circular 2021-017 publishes the reference list of Class A medical devices. The official 32-page scan remains available. The proposed transcription omits table rows and corrupts device names; it is excluded from the citeable corpus pending a complete verified transcription. | Classification | August 2021 | Official |
| AO 2018-0002 | Administrative Order No. 2018-0002 - Medical Devices Regulation (Full Text PDF) Administrative Order No. 2018-0002 (26 January 2018): guidelines governing the issuance of an authorization for a medical device based on the ASEAN Harmonized Technical Requirements — Sections I-XV (rationale, scope, definitions, general/specific/procedural guidelines, fees, phased implementation, sanctions, appeal, confidentiality, separability, repealing, effectivity) plus Annexes A-K (legal and technical requirements, application forms, and an example submission). The official FDA file is a scan whose embedded OCR layer fragments into one-word lines; the corpus reassembles it through strictly-sequenced heading promotion, so occasional OCR concatenations (e.g. "SAN CTIONS") are preserved as-published. | General | January 2018 | Official |
| FDA Philippines | Food and Drug Administration Philippines - Medical Devices FDA Philippines under Department of Health regulates medical devices. Responsible for device registration, establishment licensing, and post-market surveillance. | General | 2018 | Official |
| Vigilance Guidelines | Medical Device Vigilance and Post-Market Surveillance Post-market surveillance requirements including adverse event reporting, field safety corrective actions, and medical device advisories. | Vigilance | 2018 | Official |
| RA 9711 | Republic Act No. 9711 - FDA Act of 2009 Republic Act No. 9711, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Act of 2009: renames BFAD the FDA and amends RA 3720 across Sections 1-28 — objectives, powers, prohibited acts, penalties, a Regulatory Enforcement Unit, retained income, Congressional oversight, and the effectivity clause. The recorded FDA page URL serves the official gazette-style scan (27 pages) as PDF bytes; the site’s WAF blocks non-browser user agents on that route, so retrieval uses a standard browser UA against the same official URL. Scan OCR artifacts (e.g. "SIX. 9." for "SEC. 9.") are corrected positionally by the parser, not by editing text. | General | August 2009 | Official |
Changes after registration in Philippines
Source-linked rules for common changes to a registered medical device. Read the scope and conditions with each rule; unverified details are listed separately.
Does changing a device brand name or logo require an update?
A change to the registered brand name and a change to logo artwork can follow different rules. The legal manufacturer, device design and intended purpose remain the same.
A source-verified answer for this specific scenario is not yet published.
How do I update a manufacturer's name without changing the legal entity?
The same legal manufacturer changes its name, potentially alongside the device brand. A transfer to another legal entity is a separate question; permission to combine filings needs its own evidence.
A source-verified answer for this specific scenario is not yet published.
What changes when the manufacturer's office address changes?
An office address change for the same legal entity, potentially alongside name and brand changes. This does not cover moving a factory or manufacturing site, and a combined filing cannot be assumed.
A source-verified answer for this specific scenario is not yet published.
Does a catalogue or reference code change affect registration or UDI?
Check which identifier actually changes. A commercial catalogue, REF or order code is not automatically a device model, registered identifier, GTIN or UDI-DI. Rules for one identifier do not establish the route for another.
A source-verified answer for this specific scenario is not yet published.
Can a registration transfer to a different legal entity?
A real change of legal manufacturer, registration holder or owner. This differs from renaming the same entity; a change of local representative or importer alone does not establish a registration transfer route. Where other changes occur with the transfer, the exact combination and sequence need separate evidence.
A source-verified answer for this specific scenario is not yet published.
Can several changes be filed together?
Changes to brand, manufacturer name, office address and reference codes may occur together, including with a real transfer to another legal manufacturer, registration holder or owner. Assess transfer with each single change, and transfer with brand plus reference, manufacturer name plus reference, or office address plus reference changes: seven transfer combinations in total. Evidence must establish the exact combination and the order of filings and approvals. These combinations and their sequence are not all verified by the rules below; a rule for one change does not prove that a single application, fee or review period covers the combination.
A source-verified answer for this specific scenario is not yet published.
What these codes are
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