EU: Commission to postpone the deadline for introducing directive on workers’ exposure to electromagnetic fields

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30 October 2007 à 14h18

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Publication: 30 October 2007 à 14h18

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Following scientific analysis highlighting the negative effects that could have some prescriptions, too strict, of Directive 2004/40/EC regarding the protection against electromagnetic fields and the medical procedures appealing to MRI and on the activity of several industries, the European Commission offered, on October 26, to postpone until April 30, 2012 the deadline for the implementation of this text. (Ref. 070905)

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The European Commission proposed to postpone for four years the deadline for the transposition, initially planned for April 30, 2008, of Directive 2004/4/0EC regarding the minimum health and safety requirements regarding the exposure of workers to the risks arising from electromagnetic fields. Indeed, several expertise analyses showed that the exposure limit values laid down by this directive would limit to a disproportionate extent the use of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) used in the...

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