EUDAMED goes mandatory May 2026 — a pragmatic checklist for manufacturers

I spent last week reconciling our internal part numbers with GTINs and wrestling with the EUDAMED UDI uploader again. If your calendar still treats 26 May 2026 as “someone else’s problem”, it isn’t. EUDAMED mandatory means predictable: more public-facing obligations, more data to maintain, and more threads for your QMS to manage. To be fair, the database does the right things in principle. In practice this means planning, clean data, and demonstrable processes. What’s actually becoming mandatory