9 Amendments of Atidzhe ALIEVA-VELI related to 2023/0033(COD)
Amendment 39 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 2
Recital 2
(2) Pursuant to its Article 1(3), Directive 98/24/EC is to apply to carcinogens, mutagens and reprotoxic substances at work without prejudice to more stringent or specific provisions set out in Directive 2004/37/EC. To ensure legal certainty and avoid ambiguities and possible confusion over the applicable limit values for lead and its inorganic compounds, those Directives should be amended. This will provide for a revised binding occupational exposure limit value and biological limit value in Directive 2004/37/EC only, more specifically its Annexes III and IIIa containing more specific provisions on reprotoxic substances such as lead and its inorganic compounds. Therefore, the specific provisions setting the occupational exposure limit value for lead and its inorganic compounds in Annex I to Directive 98/24/EC and a biological limit value for lead and its ionorganic compounds in Annex II to Directive 98/24/EC should be deleted.
Amendment 64 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 8
Recital 8
(8) Moreover, to strengthen the health surveillance of workers exposed to lead and its inorganic compounds and thus contribute to the prevention and protection measures to be undertaken by the employer, it is necessary to amend the existing requirements that apply when workers are exposed to certain levels of lead and its inorganic compounds. To that end, detailed medical surveillance should be required whenfor all workers exposured to lead and its inorganic compounds exceeds 0.015 mg/m3 in air (50% of current OEL) or 9 µg/100ml blood (approx. 60% of the current BLV).
Amendment 79 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 9 b (new)
Recital 9 b (new)
(9b) To ensure the implementation of the necessary hygiene measures and to take into account the specific situation of vulnerable workers, the Commission should, in consultation with the ACSH, develop and publish guidelines on the protection and reduction of exposure for workers whose blood-lead levels are above the biological limit value, on the special protection of women of childbearing age and on the hygiene measures necessary to limit the blood lead level of all workers. Those guidelines should be published on the EU-OSHA website and be disseminated in all Member States by the relevant competent authorities.
Amendment 98 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 15 a (new)
Recital 15 a (new)
(15a) In the workplace, workers are often exposed to a cocktail of hazardous substances, which can increase risks and cause adverse health effects. In the case of exposure to a combination of substances acting by the same mode of action or at the same target cell or tissue, it is necessary to adapt the implementation of their possible limit values to take into account the combined effects.
Amendment 143 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – paragraph -1 – point 6 (new)
Article 2 – paragraph -1 – point 6 (new)
Directive 2004/37/EC
Article 18 a – paragraph 7 a (new)
Article 18 a – paragraph 7 a (new)
(6) in Article 18a, the following paragraph is added: ‘No later than [one year after the date of entry into force of this amending directive] the Commission shall, after consulting the ACSH, develop and publish guidelines on the protection and reduction of exposure for workers whose blood-lead levels are above the biological limit value, on the special protection of women of childbearing age and on the hygiene measures necessary to limit the blood lead level of all workers. Those guidelines shall be published on the EU- OSHA website and shall be disseminated in all Member States by the relevant competent authorities.’
Amendment 144 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – paragraph -1 – point 7 (new)
Article 2 – paragraph -1 – point 7 (new)
Directive 2004/37/EC
Article 18 a – paragraph 7 b (new)
Article 18 a – paragraph 7 b (new)
(7) in Article 18a, the following paragraph is added: ‘No later than [five years after the date of entry into force of this amending directive] and every five years thereafter, the Commission shall, taking into account up-to-date scientific data, review the Biological Guidance Value laid down in annex IIIa, in order to take into account the declining trend of environmental lead exposure levels.’
Amendment 145 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – paragraph -1 – point 8 (new)
Article 2 – paragraph -1 – point 8 (new)
Directive 2004/37/EC
Article 18 a – paragraph 7 c (new)
Article 18 a – paragraph 7 c (new)
(8) in Article 18a, the following paragraph is added: ‘No later than [one year after the date of entry into force of this amending directive], the Commission shall, taking into account the latest developments in scientific knowledge and the opinion of RAC, and after appropriate consultation of relevant stakeholders, prepare Union guidelines on how the implementation of the limit values referred to in Article 5(4) are to be adapted in the case of exposure to a combination of substances. Those guidelines shall be published on the EU- OSHA website and be disseminated in all Member States by the relevant competent authorities.’
Amendment 146 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – paragraph -1 – point 9 (new)
Article 2 – paragraph -1 – point 9 (new)
Directive 2004/37/EC
Article 18 a – paragraph 7 d (new)
Article 18 a – paragraph 7 d (new)
(9) in Article 18a, the following paragraph is added: ‘The Commission shall, as part of the next evaluation of the implementation of this Directive in the context of the evaluation referred to in Article 17a of Directive 89/391/EEC, evaluate the need to include endocrine disrupters within the scope of this Directive. The Commission shall, where appropriate, subsequently propose necessary amendments and modifications related to endocrine disrupters in a subsequent revision of this Directive.’
Amendment 172 #
Proposal for a directive
Annex II – point -1 a (new)
Annex II – point -1 a (new)
Directive 2004/37/EC
Annex I – point 8 a (new)
Annex I – point 8 a (new)
(-1a) in Annex I, the following point is added: “8a. Work involving exposure to hazardous medicinal products.”