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The EU's Agency for Safety and Health at Work
The EU's Agency for Safety and Health at Work
The EU's Agency for Safety and Health at Work
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The EU's Agency for Safety and Health at Work
SUMMARY OF:
Regulation (EC) No 2062/94 - EU Agency for Safety and Health at Work
WHAT IS THE AIM OF THE REGULATION?
It establishes the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work to provide technical, scientific and economic information to the EU bodies, EU countries and interested parties in the field.
KEY POINTS
Role
The Agency’s role includes:
Structure
Strategy
The Agency produces annual programming documents based on a 6-year corporate strategy. The 2014-20 strategy has 6 priority areas with an emphasis placed on networking and it is coherent with the EU’s 2014-20 Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) Strategic Framework.
FROM WHEN DOES THE REGULATION APPLY?
It has applied since 9 September 1994.
BACKGROUND
European Agency for Safety and Health at Work
MAIN DOCUMENT
Council Regulation (EC) No 2062/94 of 18 July 1994 establishing a European Agency for Safety and Health at Work (OJ L 216, 20.8.1994, pp. 1–7)
Successive amendments and corrections to Regulation (EC) No 2062/94 have been incorporated into the basic text. This consolidated version is of documentary value only.
RELATED DOCUMENTS
Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament, the Council, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions on an EU Strategic Framework on Health and Safety at Work 2014-2020 (COM(2014) 332 final of 6.6.2014)
last update 05.12.2016