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"Mr President, Commissioner, first of all, the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs would like to join the others and extend its best wishes for a speedy recovery to Mrs Damião, the original rapporteur, and also congratulate Mr Hughes on his work as the deputy and much more.
I think that we are talking in terms of adding the all-important, finishing touches to a directive that mainly deals with the position of employees. I am actually of the same mind as Mr Meijer, but I should like to repeat that it is relevant to all kinds of other categories of people who are involved, and we must certainly do something about this situation. These are my comments on Directive 83/477/EC. Like Mr Hughes, I am pleased that the impending deadlock, caused by the fact that Parliament's amendments had not been adopted, has been staved off thanks to an excellent contribution by the Council in the form of a common position and additional amendments that are somewhat more far-reaching.
This actually means that we have made a great deal of progress and that asbestos of any kind, albeit by-products or production, has been banned, and this finally after 25 years. I conclude from this that we, given the incubation time of 25 years or longer, must apply the precautionary principle more forcefully. I would refer to a few areas we have done absolutely nothing about, such as electromagnetic waves, optical radiation, OPS, softeners and their use. Not only should we tackle these products, we should also consider the use to which they are put in production processes. This automatically leads to the need for legislation and directives in those countries, but also sanctions, hence also an amendment. In addition, the partners should be involved; this all seems to make perfect sense to me. Who, though, maintains law and order in practice? Surely it is the trade union officials, workers who sit on works councils, sometimes specialist services in large companies, and they need to be able to fall back on something. This is why we need to focus on this in our forthcoming Health and Safety programme.
Finally, I should like to see a register drawn up of those buildings, and in that sense, I would endorse Mr Meijer. This is, in fact, what we had asked for, but the Council, because of difficulties, did not immediately accept it. We shall therefore liaise with the Council and try to reach either a solution in terms of national registers or a solution in a different way, so that we know of the buildings we are talking about. I am familiar with one of them: the Commission building, but that has been razed to the ground."@en1
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