Protecting European healthcare workers from blood borne infections due to needle stick injuries

The European Parliament adopted a resolution based on the own-initiative report drafted by Stephen HUGHES (PES, UK) on protecting European healthcare workers from blood-borne infections due to needlestick injuries. At the plenary sitting of 13 June 2006 it had been decided to refer the first report back to committee for further consideration. (For a summary of the first report, please see the document dated 20/04/2006.) This report was adopted with 465 votes in favour, 18 against and 13 abstentions. In the vote, MEPs adopted some changes to the version originally adopted on 20 April 2006.  These changes relate to the annex to the report in which the committee makes detailed recommendations as to the contents of the proposals requested from the Commission.