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Madam President, we welcome the important step being taken today in the field of health and safety at work. The proposal on risks to workers from physical agents was submitted eight years ago and the first part, on noise, was approved this year. So we realise just how difficult, both technically and politically, this type of legislation is. On behalf of the Commission, I should therefore like to congratulate the European Parliament, especially the members of the conciliation committee, on implementing what is, technically and politically, a particularly tricky issue.
Today's final draft of the directive contains three important achievements. First, it provides greater protection for workers in all sectors of the economy, including sea and air transport, which were not covered under current legislation. Secondly, it recognises that the music and entertainment industry is a special case and grants it a five-year transitional period in which to draw up the codes of conduct needed so that workers and employers can honour their legal obligations and, thirdly, it reduces the limit of exposure from 90 db, which was the limit set in the 1986 directive, to 87 db. Clear progress indeed.
Approval of this directive completes the second stage of the Commission proposal on risks from physical agents. More work is needed on the remaining two sections of the Commission proposal, namely electromagnetic fields and optical radiation.
Ladies and gentlemen, I should like to call on the co-legislators to keep up their efforts to complete this legal framework on physical agents, which will give us an integrated framework for protecting workers and which, it must be said, has been lying on the negotiating table for far too long."@en1
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