IVD important, formal no-review and minor branches
IVD Rule 24/28 and regulation 19 separately govern important product/business changes and imports. Approval goes to MFDS; certification/notification to NIDS. Regulation 19(5) addresses assignment evidence. Annex 3 changes not needing technical review remain their formal approval/certification/notification route; they are expressly excluded from the residual minor branch together with Annex 4 major changes. Actual minor changes are reported by the end of the month following the quarter. Do not apply an ordinary-MD Annex 3 exemption or its annual-report timing to IVDs.
- The regulation/flow retains stale internal cross-references; the current Rule 24 wording and actual branch are retained, not silently rewritten.
- Current source compilation does not make the separately future-staged Article 36 requirements current.