The June 2021 ECOO newsletter is now available, featuring an update on our spring meetings, EU policy developments and news from members and partners! Access the issue here.

Inside this newsletter:

• Message from the President
• ECOO online spring General Assembly meetings
• New partnership between ECOO and GfK
• On the EU agenda:
  • Medical Devices Regulation enters into force
  • ECOO submitted response to EU consultation on the revision of the Driving Licence Directive
  • ECOO met with Cabinet of European Commission Vice-President Dubravka Šuica
  • European Health Data Space
• ECOO Professional Services Committee issued position paper “Myopia in the 21st Century & its management by ECPs”
• Member updates:
  • Optometrists part of Ireland’s vaccination programme
  • Online OVN congress was a great success!
  • Optometry and Contact Lenses (OCL) – A new German Peer Review Journal launches July 2021
• Highlights of Helsinki2021
• Update from the World Council of Optometry
• Upcoming meetings

We are happy to share with you the latest issue of the ECOO newsletter, featuring recent policy developments at EU level as well as exciting updates from our members and partners! Access the issue here.

The March 2021 edition includes the following updates:

• ECOO UPDATES
  • Highlights from Online Focus Sessions
• ON THE EU AGENDA
  • Classification of Corrective Spectacles under the Medical Devices Regulation (MDR)
  • ECOO Responds to European Commission Consultation on Driving Licence Directive
  • EU Publishes Green Paper on Ageing
  • European Health Data Space
• COUNTRY UPDATES
  • UK Update
  • Finnish Optometry – Constant Progress

• UPDATE FROM THE WORLD COUNCIL OF OPTOMETRY
  • World Glaucoma Week