Hogan Lovells (JD Supra Ireland)

The EU-UK agreement reached on 17 October 2019 ("Agreement") revises the Irish backstop with a new protocol on Ireland/Northern Ireland ("NI protocol").

The Irish Health Products Regulatory Authority (HPRA) has published a Guide for Distributors of Medical Devices (“Guide”) in which the HPRA provides useful recommendations concerning the obligations that must be met by distributors in relation to the Medical Devices Regulation (MDR) and the In Vitro Diagnostic Medical Devices Regulation (IVDR).

In our earlier post we commented on IEDR´s (the Irish Registry for the .IE country code Top Level Domain) Public Consultation with a view to relaxing the registration policy for .IE domain names.

IEDR, the Irish Domain Registry, recently announced that it was a running a Public Consultation with a view to liberalising the .IE domain name registration policy.

The EMA is looking for a new home. In this blog post partner Elisabethann Wright argues the case for Ireland. For thousands of years Ireland has been known as the Island of Saints and Scholars. The country is also world famous for its "Irish welcome".