Coding of Tissue and Cell Products

With the Commission Directive (EU) 2015/565 of April 8, 2015 (amending Directive 2006/86/EC), certain technical requirements for the coding of human tissue and cells were defined. One of the central issues of this ‘!’ was the mandatory use of a Single European Code (SEC) to ensure traceability from the donor to the recipient and vice versa in EU Member States. As basic modules, the first part of the European Commission involved the development of an EU coding platform with a tissue equipment register (EU Compendium of Tissue Establishments). The second part comprises of a product register of all tissue and cell products circulating in the EU, with respective corresponding codes (EU Compendium of Tissue and Cell Products; https://webgate.ec.europa.eu/eucoding/). The tissue establishment registry shall include all tissue establishments performing licensed activities on human tissue, tissue preparations, or hematopoietic stem cells or stem cell preparations derived from peripheral blood or cord blood