EU co-legislators are in full agreement to establish stricter standards over workplace concentration levels for thirteen cancer or mutation-causing chemical agents. In keeping its position private, the EU Council had spread a degree of doubt over the issue for a week.
The EU will soon have new occupation exposure limits (OELs) set for thirteen chemical agents. On 11 July the EU Member States confirmed an agreement had been secured the previous week (28 June) between the EU Parliament and the EU Commission. Poland, the UK, and Croatia abstained with Poland and the UK clearly stating they were not in favor of any measures that went further than those put forward by the EU Commission.
The new legislation destined to modify Directive 2004/37/EC on cancer or...
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