5 Amendments of Pavel POC related to 2017/0004(COD)
Amendment 25 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 1
Recital 1
(1) Directive 2004/37/EC aims to protect workers against risks to their health and safety from exposure to carcinogens or mutagens at the workplace and lays down minimum requirements to that effect including limit valuebinding occupational exposure limit values for the protection of workers from chemical risks, on the basis of the latest available information, including scientific and technical data.
Amendment 35 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 2 a (new)
Recital 2 a (new)
(2a) The limit values set out in this Directive should be revised when necessary in accordance with the available information, including new scientific and technical data.
Amendment 37 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 3
Recital 3
(3) The Scientific Committee on Occupational Exposure Limits (‘the Committee’SCOEL)55 assists the Commission, in particular, in evaluating the latest available scientific and technical data and in proposing occupational exposure limit values for the protection of workers from chemical risks, to be set at Union level pursuant to Council Directive 98/24/EC56 and Directive 2004/37/EC. Other sources of scientific information, adequately robust and in the public domain were also considered, respectively those from the Agency for Committee on Safety and Health at Work (IARC) and from the national scientific committees. __________________ 55 Commission Decision 2014/113/EU of 3 March 2014 on setting up a Scientific Committee on Occupational Exposure Limits for Chemical Agents and repealing Decision 95/320/EC (OJ L 62, 4.3.2014, p. 18). 56 Council Directive 98/24/EC of 7 April 1998 on the protection of the health and safety of workers from the risks related to chemical agents at work (fourteenth individual Directive within the meaning of Article 16(1) of Directive 89/391/EEC) (OJ L 131, 05.05.1998, p. 11).
Amendment 77 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 16
Recital 16
(16) Since the objectives of this Directive, which are to improve living and working conditions and to protect the health of workers from the specific risks arising from exposure to carcinogens and mutagens or genotoxic substances, cannot be sufficiently achieved by the Member States, but can be better achieved at Union level, the Union may adopt measures, in accordance with the principle of subsidiarity as set out in Article 5(3) of the Treaty on European Union. In accordance with the principle of proportionality, as set out in Article 5(4) of the TEU, this Directive does not go beyond what is necessary in order to achieve those objectives.
Amendment 78 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 16
Recital 16
(16) Since the objectives of this Directive, which are to improve living and working conditions and to protect the health of workers from the specific risks arising from exposure to carcinogens or mutagens, cannot be sufficiently achieved by the Member States, but can be better achieved at Union level, the Union may adopt measures, in accordance with the principle of subsidiarity as set out in Article 5(3) of the Treaty on European Union. In accordance with the principle of proportionality, as set out in Article 5(4) of the TEU, this Directive does not go beyond what is necessary in order to achieve those objectives.