{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2020-1207/article-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2020-1207/article-8.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/8",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Maximum number of reprocessing cycles",
  "text": "1. Each reprocessing in accordance with Article 11 shall be counted as one reprocessing cycle. Each reprocessing cycle of a single-use device shall be counted to determine the maximum number of reprocessing cycles even if a single-use device was not reused on a patient following the reprocessing.\n2. The health institution, together with the external reprocessor, when applicable, shall determine the maximum number of reprocessing cycles which can be applied to the reprocessed single-use device, during which the performance and safety of that single-use device remains equivalent to the original single-use device.\n3. Once the maximum number of reprocessing cycles has been reached, the reprocessed single-use device shall be disposed of.",
  "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/8",
    "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."
}