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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))

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)

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)

Referral

Council of the European Union, 21.10.2020

European Parliament, 5.10.2020

Legal basis

Articles 153(2) and 304 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union

Section responsible

Section for Employment, Social Affairs and Citizenship

Adopted at plenary

2.12.2020

Plenary session No

556

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.


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