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At the Annual General Meeting held May 10-11, 2007 in Bruges (Belgium) Norbert Orth (Germany) has been elected unanimously by the ADDE members President and Chairman of ADDE. He replaces Frank Bruggeman (Belgium) who steps back after 12 years leading work. Frank Bruggeman remains on the Board for one additional year as past president.

Norbert Orth announced to work closely together with the national dental trade organizations in order to realize a certain number of new goals which should enable dental dealer companies to enhance their services and trade activities, notably with EDI-DENT, a new communi-cation platform B2B vendors-dealer.

ADDE is a member of UEAPME, the association of SMES in Europe. UEAPME serves as a gate-keeper for ADDE whenever a contract is needed at EU level in Brussels.

For further information please contact the ADDE-secretariat or click on www.ueapme.com

Waste Elimination
The ADDE Technical Committee discussed the results of an inquiry conducted by the ADDE secretariat on waste elimination of electric and electronic dental equipment. The European-wide report is now available for ADDE members at the ADDE secretariat. This survey shows in a synoptical presentation the various forms of execution of the WEEE directive in the EU countries.

National Registry for the EU-Guideline WEEE

According to the resolutions taken by the ADDE TC concerning WEEE (waste elimination of electrical and electronic equipment) which regulates the collection, withdrawal and recycling of old and obsolete electrical devices a list of Registry Agencies in Individual EU Member States is set up. Those agencies provide contact information for competent authorities and institutions in the EU member states for this issue. The information shall be updated as necessary on the ADDE web-site.

Mandatoray Language Requirements for Medical Devices

Depending on the Medical Devices Directive (93/42/EEC)- MDD – the member states of the European Economic Area, EEA, can require their own language. All of them have written the mandatory use of their own language for the information on the product and/or labelling depending on MDD annex I, paragraph 13 into their national law transposing the MDD.The MDD says that the manufacturer has to deliver the information in one official language of the member states, which is up to him but he has to consider the contacts with the Competent Authorities and the Notified Bodies.If a manufacturer delivers into other members states of the EEA he has to come to an agreement with the importer on the language:

Either the manufacturer does the translation, then he has to prove the system for a correct translation to the Notified Body – if involved, or
the importer organises the translation, then the manufacturer has to control that at least the safety instructions are correctly translated – for his own safety. The product liability remains in any case with the manufacturer, except the manufacturer can prove that the importer did the mistake.

Only the importer is bound by his national law, not the manufacturer in the other country. Therefore only the importer can decide if another language than his own could be used.

Survey 2007

ADDE and FIDE are proud to publish the 2007 edition of the Survey on the European Dental trade, Market Trends mentioning the 2006 figures. This 2007
survey identifies the major trends annualy since 1998 in the most significant areas to indicate the overall dynamics effecting the health of the dental market in each country. We hope that you will find the study 2007 a valuable asset for your organisation. As always, we welcome feedback from our respective subscribers and members in order to improve the survey to meet your needs.

European Commission website

The European Commission gives a regularly updated website that sums-up clearly allregulations and directives concerning medical devices. You
will find this useful information here.

For further information, please contact the ADDE General Secretariat under info@adde.info.