Art. 1 of Decreto 3/008 establishes three categories: A) reactivos para diagnóstico (chemical or biological substances, alone or as systems, excluding reading equipment, used in vitro or in vivo to investigate a human ailment); B) equipos médicos (instruments or apparatus, mechanical, electrical, electronic or logical - including software - applied to diagnostic, biological, imaging or therapeutic ends, including spare parts, calibration/conditioning solutions and accessories); C) dispositivos (terapéuticos/médicos) (instruments, implements, implants and materials for diagnosis, prevention, monitoring, treatment or alleviation of disease, etc., whose principal action is not achieved by pharmacological or metabolic means).
Category A covers IVD-type reagents; reading equipment is excluded from A and captured under B.