# Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/1207 of 19 August 2020 laying down rules for the application of Regulation (EU) 2017/745 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards common specifications for the reprocessing of single-use devices (Text with EEA relevance), Article 2: Definitions

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

For the purposes of this Regulation, the following definitions shall apply:
(1) ‘reprocessor’ means the health institution and the external reprocessor reprocessing single-use devices;
(2) ‘external reprocessor’ means the entity reprocessing single-use devices at the request of a health institution;
(3) ‘reprocessing cycle’ means a cycle that includes all reprocessing steps applied to a single-use device to ensure that the safety and performance of the reprocessed device is equivalent to that of the original device.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2020/1207/article/2 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2020-1207/article-2
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