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Document 01995D0319-20100101
Commission Decision of 12 July 1995 setting up a Committee of Senior Labour Inspectors (95/319/EC)
Consolidated text: Commission Decision of 12 July 1995 setting up a Committee of Senior Labour Inspectors (95/319/EC)
Commission Decision of 12 July 1995 setting up a Committee of Senior Labour Inspectors (95/319/EC)
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COMMISSION DECISION of 12 July 1995 setting up a Committee of Senior Labour Inspectors (OJ L 188 9.8.1995, p. 11) |
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COMMISSION DECISION
of 12 July 1995
setting up a Committee of Senior Labour Inspectors
(95/319/EC)
Article 1
Article 2
Article 3
The Committee, in assisting the Commission, shall work towards the achievement of the following objectives:
defining common principles of labour inspection in the field of health and safety at work and developing methods of assessing the national systems of inspection in relation to those principles;
promoting improved knowledge and mutual understanding of the different national systems and practices of labour inspection, the methods and legal frameworks for action;
developing exchanges between national labour inspection services of their experiences in monitoring the enforcement of secondary Community law on health and safety at work, so as to ensure its consistent enforcement throughout the Community;
promoting exchanges for labour inspectors between national administrations and the setting up of training programmes for inspectors;
drawing up and publishing documents to facilitate the activities of labour inspectors;
developing a reliable and efficient system of rapid information exchange between labour inspectorates on all problems encountered in monitoring the enforcement of Community legislation in the field of health and safety at work;
establishing active cooperation with labour inspectorates of third countries, so as to promote the work done by the Community on health and safety at work and to assist in resolving any cross-border problems;
studying the possible impact of other Community policies on labour inspection activities relating to health and safety at work and working conditions.
Article 4
The Committee shall set up a three-year programme, whereby the individual activities to be undertaken shall be specified each year, taking into account the evaluation of the activities undertaken the previous year.
Article 5
One alternate member may be appointed for each full member. An alternate member shall attend the Committee meetings only when the full member is unable to be present.
When submitting the names of their nominees to the Commission, the Member States shall ensure that these are the senior representatives of their labour inspection services with a mandate to carry out the tasks of the Committee.
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Article 6
The list of the members shall be published by the Commission in the Official Journal of the European Communities for information purposes.
Article 7
Article 8
Article 9
Article 9a
Neither members nor experts shall receive payment for their work.
Article 10
The following may attend meetings of the Committee as observers:
a representative of the labour inspection service of each EEA/EFTA state;
the Director of the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work;
a representative of the International Labour Organisation.
Article 11
Article 11a
The Committee shall adopt its rules of procedure, which shall lay down the practical arrangements for its work, including the convening of meetings and the organisation of working groups.
Article 12
Article 13
Without prejudice to the provisions of Article 214 of the Treaty, the members of the Committee shall be under an obligation not to disclose information which has come to their knowledge through the work of the Committee or its working groups, where the Commission or a member of the Committee asks for the information given or the opinion requested to be kept confidential.
In such cases, meetings shall be attended by the members of the Committee and the representatives of the Commission only.
( 1 ) OJ No C 28, 3.2.1988, p. 3.
( 2 ) OJ No C 49, 19.2.1993, p. 6.
( 3 ) COM (95) 282 final.
( 4 ) OJ No C 179, 1.7.1994, p. 1.