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Summary

Keywords

Social policy - Protection of safety and health of workers - Directive 90/270 on work with display screen equipment - Scope - Meaning of display screen - Screens that display film recordings in analogue or digital form - Included - Meaning of control cabs for vehicles or machinery - Scope

(Council Directive 90/270, Arts 1(3)(a) and 2(a))

Summary

$$In view of the purpose of Directive 90/270 of protecting the health and safety of workers by laying down minimum safety and health requirements for work with display screen equipment, compliance with the requirements set out in the directive and its annex is essential regardless of the type of image displayed on the screen.

The term graphic display screen, for the purposes of Article 2(a) of the directive must therefore be understood in a broad sense and must be interpreted so as to include screens that display film recordings in analogue or digital form.

On the other hand, the term control cabs for vehicles or machinery, in Article 1(3)(a) of the directive, must be interpreted narrowly inasmuch as these are excluded from the directive's scope of application. That provision must therefore be interpreted as meaning that the term does not extend to a job in which analogue or digital images are processed with the aid of technical devices and/or computer programmes in order to produce television broadcasts.

( see paras 37, 41, 43, 50, 54, operative part 1-2 )