Directive 2008/46 of April 23, 2008, which provides for a four-year postponement of the deadline for transposition of Directive 2004/40/EC concerning minimum health and safety requirements regarding the exposure of workers to the risks arising from physical agents (electromagnetic fields) - 18th individual Directive within the meaning of Article 16(1) of Directive 89/391/EEC - was published in the OJEU. (Ref. 080394)
This directive provides for a four year postponement of the deadline for the transposition of Directive 2004/40 from April 30, 2008 to April 30, 2012, to ensure that the limits of exposure planned by the directive won’t be prejudicial to medical imaging. Indeed, several experts showed that the exposure limits set in this directive would limit in a disproportionate way the appeal to Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) in the medical sector and would jeopardize several sectors. When the draft Direct
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