{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2020-1207/article-24",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2020-1207/article-24.json",
  "legislation": "eur/2020/1207",
  "legislation_title": "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)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2020-1207",
  "path": "article/24",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "24",
  "heading": "Tracking of reprocessing cycles",
  "text": "1. Reprocessors shall put in place a tracking system allowing the identification of the single-use device throughout the reprocessing cycle and the lifetime of the reprocessed single-use device.\nThis tracking system shall ensure the following:\n(a) record the number of reprocessing cycles that the single-use device has undergone;\n(b) ensure that the health institution verifies that the single-use device reprocessed by the external reprocessor and returned to the health institution is the same single-use device that was used in the health institution concerned and sent to the external reprocessor for reprocessing.\n2. The tracking system shall ensure that reprocessed devices can be linked to the correct batch number for the purposes of field safety corrective action in accordance with Article 89 of Regulation (EU) 2017/745.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2020/1207/article/24",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:42:28.241115+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}