1 Amendments of Luke Ming FLANAGAN related to 2017/0004(COD)
Amendment 17 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 3
Recital 3
(3) The Scientific Committee on Occupational Exposure Limits (‘the Committee’)55 assists the Commission, in particular, in evaluating the latest available scientific data and in proposing occupational exposure limit values for the protection of workers from chemical risks, to be set at Union level pursuant to Council Directive 98/24/EC56 and Directive 2004/37/EC. Other sources of scientific information, adequately robust and in the public domain were also considered.; in order to build public trust in the SCOEL committee and to provide independent data and analysis to it, the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) should be empowered and resourced to carry out independent research on the risks to human and environmental health that can result from exposure to chemicals, to complement its existing analysis of industry studies; __________________ 55 Commission Decision 2014/113/EU of 3 March 2014 on setting up a Scientific Committee on Occupational Exposure Limits for Chemical Agents and repealing Decision 95/320/EC (OJ L 62, 4.3.2014, p. 18). 56 Council Directive 98/24/EC of 7 April 1998 on the protection of the health and safety of workers from the risks related to chemical agents at work (fourteenth individual Directive within the meaning of Article 16(1) of Directive 89/391/EEC) (OJ L 131, 05.05.1998, p. 11).