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Written by Laurence Amand-Eeckhout (4th edition, updated on 04.04.2024).
As part of its fight against harmful substances, on 13 February 2023 the European Commission tabled a proposal for a directive aimed at protecting workers’ health by lowering occupational exposure to lead and diisocyanates. In Parliament, the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs, which is responsible for the file, adopted its report on 7 September 2023. The mandate to enter into interinstitutional negotiations was endorsed by the plenary the following week. On 14 November 2023, Parliament and the Council reached a provisional agreement. Parliament approved the agreed text on 7 February 2024; the Council followed on 26 February 2024. The final act was signed on 13 March 2024.
The directive sets, for the first time, occupational limit values for diisocyanates, while revising the limit values for lead for the first time in more than 40 years. It also includes a review mechanism to guarantee regular revisions from now on to make sure that those limit values will be regularly updated, taking into account the latest scientific data
Complete version
- April 2024: Protection of workers: Limit values for lead and diisocyanates (4th edition)
| Proposal for a directive of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Council Directive 98/24/EC and Directive 2004/37/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards the limit values for lead and its inorganic compounds and diisocyanates | ||
| Committee responsible: | Employment and Social Affairs (EMPL) | COM(2023) 71 13.2.2023 |
| Rapporteur: | Nikolaj Villumsen (The Left, Denmark) | 2023/0033(COD) |
| Shadow rapporteurs: | Cindy Franssen (EPP, Belgium) Ilan De Basso (S&D, Sweden) Véronique Trillet-Lenoir † (Renew, France) Sara Matthieu (Greens/EFA, Belgium) Elżbieta Rafalska (ECR, Poland) | Ordinary legislative procedure (COD) (Parliament and Council on equal footing – formerly ‘co-decision’) |
| Procedure completed: | Directive (EU) 2024/869 OJ L, 19.03.2024 | |
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