Minimum health and safety requirements regarding the exposure of workers to the risks arising from physical agents (electromagnetic fields)

The Council reached a general approach (doc. 14020/12) on a new Directive on the minimum health and safety requirements regarding the exposure of workers to the risks arising from electromagnetic fields (14020/12), by which a Directive adopted in 2004 on the same subject will be repealed.

One Member State, however, could not accept the proposed text. While the draft Directive provides for the internationally recognised "weighted peak method" as a reference method for exposure evaluation, that delegation requests more flexibility so as to allow for the use of other methods with less conservative results.