Distributors' and importers' reporting

Updated 01 February 2023

Distributors and importers can report serious incidents and accidents with medical devices to the Danish Medicines Agency. The manufacturer must be informed of the incident with the device in question. The incident can be reported using the form below.

Incident reporting

Incidents must be reported using the form below:

Distributors’ and importers’ reporting of medical device incidents (opens in a new window)

 Please note: The form will close after 20 minutes’ inactivity (e.g. if no entries are made). In this case, we will not receive your form.

The Danish Medicines Agency is the data controller in respect of the processing of the personal data we have received from you. Please find our contact details below.

Danish Medicines Agency

Axel Heides Gade 1
2300 Copenhagen S
Denmark

CVR no.: 37052485

Telephone: +45 44 88 95 95

Email: Send an email

If you have questions about our processing of your data, we advise you to contact our data protection officer.

Our data protection officer can be contacted in the following ways:

Letter: 

The Danish Medicines Agency
Axel Heides Gade 1
2300 Copenhagen S
Att. ”data protection officer"

We process your personal data for the following purposes:

  • The Danish Medicines Agency has regulatory responsibility for safety monitoring and market surveillance of medical devices in Denmark.

  • The Danish Medicines Agency uses the incident reports in our work of monitoring the safety of medical devices.

  • The report received by the Danish Medicines Agency is registered in our records system.

  • We contact the medical device manufacturer (if the manufacturer can be identified) to clarify the cause of the incident. The manufacturer will start an investigation to find out if there are any deficiencies affecting the safety or performance of the device. If changes need to be implemented, we ensure that it happens. For example, it may be necessary to change the information in the instructions for use, or to make alterations to the device for its safe and proper use.

  • Your report will be forwarded to the medical device manufacturer.

The legal basis for our processing of your personal data follows from:

Danish Act on Medical Devices with related executive orders (executive order on medical devices and products without an intended medical purpose, executive order on in vitro diagnostic medical devices), and Regulation (EU) 2017/745 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 5 April 2017 on medical devices.
(Please note that the Danish executive orders linked above are not available in English; their titles have been translated for ease of understanding)

We process the following categories of personal data about you:

  • Basic data, such as name and contact details

We disclose or transfer your personal data to the following recipients:

  • The Danish Medicines Agency sends the report to the medical device manufacturer (if the manufacturer can be identified).

We use the incident reports for our work with the continuous monitoring of the safety of medical devices. For this purpose, we store your information for a period of 20 years after the expiry of a journal period (usually five years).

The General Data Protection Regulation gives you a number of rights in respect of our processing of your personal data.

If you want to make use of your rights, you need to contact us.

Right to see your data (right of access)

You have the right to access the information we process about you as well as other information:

Right to rectification (correction)

You have the right to have incorrect information about you corrected.

Right to erasure

In exceptional cases, you have the right to have information about you erased before the time we would generally erase the information.

Right to restriction of processing

In certain cases, you have the right to have the processing of your data restricted. If you do have the right to restriction of processing, then we are only allowed to process your data, with the exception of storage, with your consent or for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims or for the protection of the rights of another person or for reasons of important public interest.

Right to object

In certain cases, you have the right to object to our otherwise legal processing of your personal data.

You can read more about your rights in the Danish Data Protection Agency's guidelines on the rights of data subjects. The guidelines are available in Danish at the website of the Danish Data Protection Agency www.datatilsynet.dk.

You have the right to lodge a complaint with the Danish Data Protection Agency if you are displeased with the way in which we process your personal data. The contact details of the Danish Data Protection Agency are available at www.datatilsynet.dk.