Decentralized Community agencies: Agency for security and health at work (amend. Regul. 2062/94/EC)

The committee unanimously adopted a report by Mr SKINNER on a Commission proposal amending the 1994 Regulation establishing a European Agency for Safety and Health at Work in Bilbao, Spain. The proposal was needed to take account of the accession to the Community of Sweden, Finalnd and Austria on 1 January 1995. Parliament's report amended the Commission text to give more influence to the representatives of both sides of industry vis-à-vis the Member States on the agency's administrative board. It also included a provision opening all areas of the agency's work to public scrutin except where individual cases need to be kept confiendtial.