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Document 52020AE5142
Opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee on ‘Proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Directive 2004/37/EC on the protection of workers from the risks related to exposure to carcinogens or mutagens at work’ (COM(2020) 0571 — 2020/0262 (COD))
Opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee on ‘Proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Directive 2004/37/EC on the protection of workers from the risks related to exposure to carcinogens or mutagens at work’ (COM(2020) 0571 — 2020/0262 (COD))
Opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee on ‘Proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Directive 2004/37/EC on the protection of workers from the risks related to exposure to carcinogens or mutagens at work’ (COM(2020) 0571 — 2020/0262 (COD))
EESC 2020/05142
OJ C 56, 16.2.2021, p. 63–63
(BG, ES, CS, DA, DE, ET, EL, EN, FR, HR, IT, LV, LT, HU, MT, NL, PL, PT, RO, SK, SL, FI, SV)
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16.2.2021 |
EN |
Official Journal of the European Union |
C 56/63 |
Opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee on ‘Proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Directive 2004/37/EC on the protection of workers from the risks related to exposure to carcinogens or mutagens at work’
(COM(2020) 0571 — 2020/0262 (COD))
(2021/C 56/11)
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Referral |
Council of the European Union, 21.10.2020 European Parliament, 5.10.2020 |
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Legal basis |
Articles 153(2) and 304 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union |
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Section responsible |
Section for Employment, Social Affairs and Citizenship |
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Adopted at plenary |
2.12.2020 |
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Plenary session No |
556 |
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Outcome of vote (for/against/abstentions) |
224/0/6 |
Since the Committee unreservedly endorses the content of the proposal and has already set out its views on the subject in its earlier opinions, namely SOC/545 — Protection from cancer-causing chemicals, adopted on 21 September 2016, SOC/559 — Protection of workers from carcinogens or mutagens at work, adopted on 31 May 2017, SOC/591 — Protection of workers from carcinogens or mutagens at work, adopted on 19 September 2018, and CCMI/130 — Freeing the EU from asbestos, adopted on 18 February 2015 (1), it decided, at its 556th plenary session of 2 and 3 December 2020, by 224 votes with 6 abstentions, to issue an opinion endorsing the proposed text and to refer to the position it had taken in the abovementioned documents.
Brussels, 2 December 2020.
The President of the European Economic and Social Committee
Christa SCHWENG
(1) OJ C 487, 28.12.2016, p. 113; OJ C 288, 31.8.2017, p. 56; OJ C 440, 6.12.2018, p. 145; OJ C 251, 31.7.2015, p. 13.