To improve patient safety and the tracking of medical devices, including contact lenses, the European Union is introducing the Unique Device Identifier (UDI) system. In our latest guest article, Laure-Anne Martinet, Secretary General of EuromContact, outlines what...
The I-SCREEN research project is over half way to its recruitment target, with 2,733 participants across Switzerland, Austria, Slovenia, the United Kingdom and Spain, plus an additional 275 participants enrolled in France. Read more about this pioneering project in...
The European Union’s updated rules on driving licences, which entered into force on 25 November 2025, mark a significant modernisation of the legislative framework. ECOO has been actively engaged in contributing to development of this new Directive, seeking to ensure...
In our latest member article, ECOO’s Bulgarian members, The Bulgarian Association Of Optometrists (BAO) and The National Association Of Bulgarian Optometrists And Opticians (NABOO), outline progress in professional and institutional discussions regarding the...
More than 50 delegates from 22 countries met in Puglia, Italy, for the ECOO General Assembly and autumn meetings, 17-19 October. The meetings were hosted by ECOO’s three Italian members, the Associazione Laureati Ottica e Optometria (ALOeO), Federottica and the...
