Platform
Modules
By sector
By sector
By standard
Blog
News
Events
AMedP-3.1
National military medical services and the dental officers a nation tasks with dental identification duties under STANAG 2464
AMedP-3.1 is NATO's agreement, recorded in STANAG 2464, standardising how nations record and exchange dental information so identification data compiled by one nation can be compared and understood by another.
AMedP-3.1 is the NATO Allied Medical Publication that standardises how participating nations record and exchange dental information used to identify human remains, so that data one nation's dental officers compile can be read and compared by another's. Its own aim is to define the ante-mortem, post-mortem and reconciliation processes around dental identification, outline their operational and scientific background, and "reiterate current internationally recognized protocols and procedures for identifying individuals by their oral remains," so that a deployed identification effort and civil-military cooperation on a mass-fatality incident can proceed on a shared basis. This concerns the identification of the dead, and this page keeps to what the document is, whom it addresses and how it takes effect, without describing any identification procedure, charting or coding system, or examination method.
Nations' agreement to use AMedP-3.1 is recorded in STANAG 2464: AMedP-3.1 is the technical content, and STANAG 2464 is what gives it force. AMedP-3.1 itself states it "is considered implemented when a nation has issued the necessary orders or instructions to the forces concerned, putting the principles and protocols of this agreement into effect." A nation can ratify with reservations, and several have. At promulgation, Belgium recorded that it "is not able to deploy an independent dental identification capability but can participate to an international identification team on a case-by-case basis," and Hungary recorded much the same. Greece cited funding and training constraints against its own timeline. North Macedonia carries out this work through its own national forensic institute, in line with Interpol protocols. Poland will implement once it has built a national radiological database. The document is explicit that the framework "may not require additional resources, and will not supersede more strict national regulations." For an organisation, there is no separate commercial route in: this is an agreement between nations about how their own forces work, not a specification a supplier builds a product against.
AMedP-3.1 addresses participating nations, acting through the forces they task with identification duties, and the dental officers and other personnel those nations assign to ante-mortem, post-mortem and reconciliation work. Nations agree to train those personnel, to ensure they can use forensic dental equipment appropriately and safely, and to record and document dental evidence using a shared notation and documentation set when operating in multinational or civil-military settings, so that what one nation records can be understood by another. The document places no obligation directly on a company.
The edition in front of this page is Edition B, Version 2, effective on receipt and promulgated June
local document-destruction procedure. AMedP-3.1 sits in NATO's medical standardization series, sponsored through COMEDS and the Military Committee Medical Standardization Board, alongside the other Allied Medical Publications.
The substance dental officers work from directly sits in AMedP-3.1's annexes: ante-mortem, post-mortem and reconciliation procedures, a recommended equipment list, a comparison of two dental charting notations, INTERPOL documentation formats, and a reconciliation record format. This page does not describe any of that content. It is written for someone deciding whether this nation-to-nation standardisation agreement concerns their organisation, not for a dental officer carrying out identification work.
AMedP-3.1 sets up no certification, audit or inspection regime. A nation confirms its own adoption by issuing orders to its own forces, and the reservations recorded at promulgation are nations reporting the extent of what they can do, not an assessment made by anyone else. No accredited body, notified body or customer audit appears anywhere in the text.
AMedP-3.1 is a nation-to-nation operational agreement, not a management-system standard, and the substantive work it concerns, identifying human remains, happens within a nation's military medical services, not in software. What an organisation supporting that work can evidence is administrative: the order or instruction that puts the agreement into effect for a given force, records of which units or personnel have been briefed or trained under it, and documentation of which reservation, if any, a national force operates under. ComplyTrain is a compliance record system used generally for that kind of trail: controlled documents, training records and their renewal dates, and an audit trail showing what was issued, to whom, and when.
ComplyTrain does not perform, hold or process any forensic or dental identification data, and it does not train personnel in dental examination or identification technique. Which reservation or implementation order applies to a given unit is a matter of national policy, not something this page can tell a reader. The standards explorer shows what else sits alongside AMedP-3.1 in the medical series, and we are glad to talk through what a specific requirement is asking for.
Tell us how you need to work with AMedP-3.1 and what you need from it. We will come back to you about what ComplyTrain can do.
Thank you. Your list is on its way to your inbox, and we will come back to you on what working with these standards in ComplyTrain involves, usually within one business day.
It binds through STANAG 2464, the NATO agreement recording nations' agreement to use this publication. A nation implements it by issuing its own orders or instructions to its forces, and a nation can ratify with reservations, as several have.
No. AMedP-3.1 describes no certification, accreditation or audit scheme of any kind. It is an agreement between nations about how their own forces record and exchange dental identification information, confirmed by a nation issuing its own implementing orders, not something a company or unit is assessed against by a third party.
AMedP-3.1 is the Allied Medical Publication that carries the substantive content. STANAG 2464 is the Standardization Agreement recording that participating nations agree to use it; it is what gives AMedP-3.1 its force.
The document accommodates this directly. Several nations recorded reservations at promulgation noting they cannot deploy an independent capability but can still contribute personnel to an international identification team on a case-by-case basis, and others carry out this work through an existing national mechanism instead.
No. AMedP-3.1 addresses dental identification specifically. Its background material notes that dental identification is one of several internationally recognised identification methods used alongside others in practice, without this page describing any of them.
One system for the whole compliance programme. Start with the module you need most.
Collect information the same way every time, and decide in advance what happens next.
Know whether your controls are operating, not just whether a policy says they exist.
Turn the compliance work you already know about into a plan with owners, dependencies and dates.
Know what you can offer, and hold the evidence behind every configuration you offer it in.
Eight built-in reports across every module, scheduled, delivered, and filed where the evidence lives.
The sector news that matters to your organisation - read and rated by AI, and delivered as a scheduled digest in your own language.
AI reads the tender pack and pulls out the requirements, deadlines and rules - then helps you draft the response from your own approved content, with you reviewing every step.
One current register of the suppliers and partners you depend on - each risk-assessed, re-assessing itself on schedule, and wired straight into your risk register.
See every requirement you face - across every standard, plus your own contracts and policies - traced to the documents, evidence and processes that satisfy it.
Identify, score, treat and review your risks in one place - with AI to help anyone run a proper assessment, and a defensible trail behind every decision.
Assign training, prove it was understood, and hold the competence records an auditor asks for.
Draft compliance documents with AI, keep every version under control, and export them beautifully branded - all in one place.
Audits, corrective actions, processes and approvals in one quality system, organised around ISO 9001.
Medical device manufacturers operate under more regulatory pressure than almost any other sector outside pharmaceuticals. The rules govern how you design a device, how you make it, how you track it after it ships, and how you respond when something goes wrong.
Learn how EU dual-use export controls apply to encryption, sensors, and software, how classification works under Annex I, and why sending source code by email can count as an export.
A practical way to turn in-your-head risk management into a register that survives staff turnover and answers the risk questions now showing up in tenders.