Activites

• 1996/06/29 Final act published in Official Journal
  • Directive 1996/29
  • OJ L 159 29.06.1996, p. 0001
• #1922
• 1996/05/13 Council Meeting
• 1996/05/13 End of procedure in Parliament
• 1996/05/13 Act adopted by Council after consultation of Parliament
• 1994/07/08 Modified legislative proposal published
  • COM(1994)0298 summary

    The Commission has amended its proposal in the light of the amendments proposed by the European Parliament at first reading. Most of the amendments seek to improve the text by enhancing protection. - The Commission has improved the definition of the words "accident", "intervention" and "practice". - The Commission has also enhanced protection for pregnant and breastfeeding women by taking account of Directive 92/85/EEC which deals specifically with them. - It has also improved cases of exposure subject to special authorisation by making provision for the Member States to take steps to ban authorisations for workers subject to this type of exposure. - It has made considerable improvements to requirements for control zones (depending on the type and extent of the radiological risk in these zones, radiological monitoring must be set up in the surrounding area). Requirements must be implemented in controlled or monitored zones by qualified experts. - Finally, as regards the principle whereby each Member State must take action to ensure that the general public is suitably protected, the Commission considers that this protection must be "the best possible".�

• 1994/04/20 Decision by Parliament, 1st reading/single reading
  • T3-0252/1994 summary

    The European Parliament adopted the report by Mr LANNOYE on the protection of the health of workers and the general public against the dangers arising from ionising radiation.�

• 1994/04/19 Debate in Parliament
  • Debate in Parliament summary

• 1994/03/15 Vote in committee, 1st reading/single reading
  • A3-0147/1994
• 1993/09/13 Committee referral announced in Parliament, 1st reading/single reading
• 1993/07/20 Legislative proposal published
  • COM(1993)0349 summary

    This amended proposal for a directive laid down basic safety standards for the protection of the health of workers and the general public against the dangers arising from ionising radiation. Changes were made in respect of : - the use of definitions, quantities and units, weighting factors for exposures and tissues; - the setting of stricter dose limits to take account of more recent estimates of the carcinogenic risk of exposure to ionising radiation and the concept of health detriment; - introduction of provisions on radiological protection in certain cases of occupational exposure to natural sources of radiation; - the banning of certain unjustified uses of radioactivity; - broadening of the protective measures to be taken in the event of a radiation accident; - introduction of the concept of 'dose constraint' for a given source; - changes to the radioactivity values specified by the conditions for authorisation/exemption laid down in the Directive. �

Documents

• Legislative proposal published: COM(1993)0349
• Committee report tabled for plenary, 1st reading/single reading: A3-0147/1994
• Debate in Parliament: Debate in Parliament
• Decision by Parliament, 1st reading/single reading: T3-0252/1994
• Modified legislative proposal published: COM(1994)0298
• : Directive 1996/29
• : OJ L 159 29.06.1996, p. 0001

History

(these mark the time of scraping, not the official date of the change)