The text aims to add the new international standards on the measure of electromagnetic fields to the protection of workers who are exposed and to exclude some sectors, including those using medical imaging (MRI scanning) from the scope of the European law. (Ref. 130212)
MRI. The problems faced by the health industry regarding the use of MRIs were the reason behind Directive 2004/40/EC. The Directive laid down minimum security standards with which employers operating with electromagnetic fields had to comply. These provisions were too binding for some sectors, e.g. medical imaging. In the end, the Directive was never applied and the deadline for transposing it was postponed to October 31, 2013. In 2011, the European Commission released a new legal bill. On...
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