Activities of Csaba ŐRY related to 2011/0254(NLE)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on the proposal for a Council directive laying down basic safety standards for protection against the dangers arising from exposure to ionising radiation
Amendments (24)
Amendment 13 #
Article 1 – paragraph 2
2. This Directive applies to the protection of the environment as athe pathway from radiation sources to the possible exposure of man, complemented where appropriate with specific consideration of the exposure of biota in the environment as a whole.
Amendment 15 #
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point 1
(1) Medical exposure means exposure incurred by patients or asymptomatic individuals as part of their own medical or dental diagnosis or treatment, and intended to benefit their health or well-being, as well as exposure incurred by carers and comforters and by volunteers in biomedical research;
Amendment 18 #
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point 54
(54) Non-medical imaging exposure means any deliberate exposure of humans for imaging purposes where the primary motivation for the exposure is not related to the health or well-being of the individual being exposed;
Amendment 22 #
Article 12 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 2 – point a
(a) the limit on the equivalent dose for the lens of the eye shall be 2015 mSv in a year;
Amendment 23 #
Article 12 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 2 – point b
(b) the limit on the equivalent dose for the skin shall be 150 mSv in a year, averaged over any area of 1 cm², regardless of the area exposed;
Amendment 24 #
Article 12 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 2 – point c
(c) the limit on the equivalent dose for the hands, forearms, feet and ankles shall be 150 mSv in a year.
Amendment 26 #
Article 16 – paragraph 1 – point a a (new)
(aa) safe working procedures minimizing the risks;
Amendment 27 #
Article 16 – paragraph 1 – point d a (new)
(da) the conditions under which workers are entitled to health surveillance;
Amendment 28 #
Article 17 – paragraph 1 – point b
(b) advised and trained in the visual detection of sources and their containers as well as in how to report them;
Amendment 33 #
Article 28 – paragraph 2 – point a a (new)
(aa) measures taken due to this directive;
Amendment 34 #
Article 31 – paragraph 1 – point e
(e) medical surveillance. and examination of the workers, which take place during working hours and without costs for them;
Amendment 38 #
Article 38 – paragraph 1 – point a
(a) category A: exposed workers who are liable to receive an effective dose greater than 6 mSv per year or an equivalent dose greater than 15 mSv per year for the lens of the eye or greater than 150 mSv per year for skin and extremities;
Amendment 39 #
Article 39 – paragraph 2
2. Monitoring for category B workers shall be at least sufficient to demonstrate that such workers are correctly classified in category B. Member States mayhave to require individual monitoring and if necessary individual measurements, performed by a dosimetry service, for category B workers.
Amendment 41 #
Article 43 – paragraph 1
1. Member States shall require workers to have access at their requestany time to the results of their individual monitoring, including the results of measurements which may have been used in estimating these results, or to the results of the assessment of their doses made as a result of workplace measurements.
Amendment 42 #
Article 46 – paragraph 1
No worker may be employed or classified for any period in a specific post as a category A worker if medical surveillance establishes that the worker is unfit for that specific post or fit for limited duties.
Amendment 43 #
Article 47 – paragraph 2 a (new)
2 a. The employee shall have access to his or her personal health file at any time.
Amendment 44 #
Article 49 – paragraph 1
Member States shall lay down the procedure for appeal against the findings and decisions made pursuant to Articles 45, 46 and 48. Consultation and participation of workers and/or their representatives shall be regulated by Article 11 of Council Directive 89/391/EEC.
Amendment 45 #
Article 50 – paragraph 1
1. Member States shall ensure that the system for individual radiological monitoring affords outside workers equivalent protection and medical care to that for workers employed on a permanent basis by the undertaking.
Amendment 46 #
Article 54 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1
Medical exposure shall show a sufficient net benefit, weighing the total potential diagnostic or therapeutic benefits it produces, including the direct benefits to health or well-being of an individual and the benefits to society, against the individual detriment that the exposure might cause, taking into account the efficacy, benefits and risks of available alternative techniques having the same objective but involving no or less exposure to ionising radiation.
Amendment 47 #
Article 54 – paragraph 1 a (new)
1 a. Staff shall be trained regularly and compliance with the applicable rules shall be monitored.
Amendment 49 #
Article 85 – paragraph 2 – point f a (new)
(fa) establishing documented procedures used for information and training of exposed workers.
Amendment 50 #
Article 86 – paragraph 2 – point l a (new)
(la) establishing documented procedures used for information and training of exposed workers.
Amendment 51 #
Annex 4 – paragraph 1 – point A – point 4
4. Radiological health assessment for other purposes not intended to benefit the health and well-being of the exposed individual;
Amendment 52 #
Annex 8 – paragraph 2
The data system for individual radiological monitoring established by a Member State may be realised either as a centralised national network or as a national dose register. These networks or registers mayshall be supplemented by the issuance of individual radiological monitoring documents for every outside worker.