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". – Mr President, although there are different opinions on this communication, I believe we can strike a balance.
We have already worked through the issues with the applicant countries, and there are concrete references and commitments concerning those countries as well.
In conclusion, we can in future work together in cooperation with the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs to assess the potential for more precise commitments.
As I have said, this health and safety at work strategy is an action plan for the European Community as whole. So we have to take account of the differences between the Member States, their different laws and definitions, the Treaty, the legal basis and the constraints on the Commission's human resources budget.
Attention has been drawn to the human resources cutbacks. But we have the Bilbao Agency. The Commission services and the Bilbao Agency have different terms of reference, but the Bilbao Agency provides support in the form of information, campaigns, analyses and studies. So there is very close cooperation. In any case, I cannot commit myself to more human resources, since you all know how difficult an issue that is.
What we have proposed in this strategy is realistic and the Commission is able to carry it out with the existing resources.
Now some specific comments. It is always assumed that the solution for any political issue is legislation. We do not automatically accept or rule out the need for legislation, we are just saying that, in many cases, the situation needs to be assessed to see whether such legislation is necessary.
Mrs Lynne questioned whether this procedure was always right and whether the existing data or studies were necessarily sufficient to demonstrate the need for legislation.
On the specific issue of vibration, there have been many different studies. We have received data from all the Member States proving there was a real problem. We shall be analysing it and then presenting proposals for any follow-up action.
It is not just legislation. There are so many different issues in the Commission's text. Reference was made to quality. We have already started working with Eurostat on the harmonisation of at least the definitions in the various Member States. At the moment they define accidents differently, which sometimes causes confusion. We are therefore working towards harmonisation of the existing definitions. Then we have to work on concrete indicators. These are very specific and should be submitted according to a timetable.
Benchmarking has been referred to. I spoke about that earlier. Partnership is one of the cornerstones of the whole concept. Under the strategy, each of the partners involved is required to present its own action plan. We have already received action plans from the social partners. Each Member State and each partner has to submit its own specific programme."@en1
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