# Medical Device Submissions: Amending Premarket Regulations That Require Multiple Copies and Specify Paper Copies To Be Required in Electronic Format
> **Food and Drug Administration** · Final rule. · Published 2019-12-16 · Effective 2020-01-15 · 84 FR 68334
## Document
- **Document number:** 2019-27047
- **Category:** fda-device
- **Sub-agency:** Food and Drug Administration
- **Federal Register citation:** 84 FR 68334
- **CFR reference:** 21 CFR 807
- **Publication date:** 2019-12-16
- **Effective date:** 2020-01-15
- **HHS docket:** Docket No. FDA-2018-N-0628
## Abstract

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA, Agency, or we) is issuing a final rule amending requirements for medical device premarket submissions to remove paper and multiple copies and replace them with requirements for a single submission in electronic format. This action would reduce the number of copies in electronic format required, thus improving and making more efficient the FDA's premarket submission program for medical devices.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2019/12/16/2019-27047/medical-device-submissions-amending-premarket-regulations-that-require-multiple-copies-and-specify)
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