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May I say that I fully share Mrs Kratsa's concerns about the availability of comparable statistics at European level on both accidents at work and occupational diseases. As I said earlier, the European Commission has put the strategy on health and safety on its list of priorities and harmonised statistics from the EU Statistical Office will be the basis for the proper development of this strategy.
The Commission has published two harmonised statistical methodologies since 1990. The first is the ESAW, the European Statistics on Accidents at Work, with 1993 as the reference year. The second is the EODS, the European Statistics on Occupational Diseases, with 2001 as the reference year. Provision was made for a special unit for work-related health problems in the 1999 survey on employees. As far as accidents at work since 1993 are concerned, the Commission has annual statistics available for nine economic sectors. These statistics come from various national sources and include statistics from Greece and, once they have been received from the Member States, they are adjusted by the Statistical Office in order to estimate the total number of accidents and ensure that they are comparable at European level.
As regards your comment on statistics supplied by Greece in comparison with other countries, the statistics provided by Greece are supplied by IKA, the Social Security Fund, and only refer to a proportion of accidents because only accidents which result in more than three days off work are reported. According to IKA estimates, 39% of accidents are reported, which compares with Denmark, Ireland and the United Kingdom, although we must bear in mind that 45% of Greeks who are self-employed are insured with IKA. However, we know that, in 1999 in Greece, 43.4% were employers, self-employed or employees of family businesses, while the corresponding European average, according to Eurostat, was 16.2%. As part of the new Community strategy on safety, the Commission intends to recommend measures to improve the reporting of accidents at work and occupational diseases which, we believe, will help promote this strategy in all the Member States.
However, I must stress that the efficient implementation of national provisions transposing Community directives, especially those relating to the employer's duty to report accidents sustained by employees at work is a matter for national governments. It is very hard for the European Commission to monitor the situation at national and regional level, let alone at enterprise level. So it is important for each country to set up national mechanisms to monitor health and safety issues."@en1
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