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"The protection of workers from electromagnetic fields will, for a number of years, continue to be the missing link in terms of Europe’s safety standards in the workplace. An eight-year procedure has not sufficed to finalise an agreement between the European Parliament and the Council on this issue and complete the legal arsenal. Workers are already protected by three European directives: noise, optical radiation and mechanical vibration. I previously expressed my doubts in 2008 when the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs (Anderson report) supported the European Commission’s strategy of putting this directive ‘on ice’, when I believed that it would make more sense to make minor amendments to it and provide for a derogation for medical magnetic resonance applications (MR). The Commission has provided for such a derogation in its new proposal, but it is not enough and the legal-institutional mess persists. It is, of course, regrettable that European workers are not yet protected by common safety standards in the area of electromagnetic fields. However, we should still welcome the ‘respite’ granted to the European MR sector, which is extremely important for a whole range of patients, who undergo more than 30 million medical exams involving MR every year in Europe."@en1
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