DIRECTIVE (EU) 2023/2668 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND COUNCIL  ON THE AMENDMENT OF DIRECTIVE 2009/148/EC ON THE PROTECTION OF WORKERS FROM THE RISKS RELATED TO EXPOSURE TO ASBESTOS AT WORK Cover Image

DIREKTIVA (EU) 2023/2668 EUROPSKOG PARLAMENTA I VIJEĆA O IZMJENI DIREKTIVE 2009/148/EZ O ZAŠTITI RADNIKA OD RIZIKA POVEZANIH S IZLAGANJEM AZBESTU NA RADU
DIRECTIVE (EU) 2023/2668 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND COUNCIL ON THE AMENDMENT OF DIRECTIVE 2009/148/EC ON THE PROTECTION OF WORKERS FROM THE RISKS RELATED TO EXPOSURE TO ASBESTOS AT WORK

Author(s): Marinko Učur
Subject(s): Law, Constitution, Jurisprudence, Labor relations, Health and medicine and law, Labour and Social Security Law
Published by: INTERNACIONALNI UNIVERZITET TRAVNIK
Keywords: European Union; Directive 2023/2668; risk of exposure of workers to asbestos at work; obligations of states; employers; workers and other entities;

Summary/Abstract: On November 22, 2023, the European Parliament and the Council of the European Union (hereinafter: EU) adopted Directive (EU) 2023/2668 amending Directive 2009/148/EC on the protection of workers from the risks associated with exposure to asbestos at work (hereinafter: Directive (EU ) 2023/2668). It is a new content related to the protection of workers from the risks associated with exposure to asbestos at work, established in a special procedure prescribed by the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, which, together with other designations, constitutes objective nomotechnical assumptions for the drafting of regulations, in general and emphasized in the EU. This paper describes: the reasons for amending Directive 2009/48/EC on the protection of workers from the risks associated with exposure to asbestos at work (further: Directive 2009/48/EC); the content of basic issues and relationships in Directive (EU) 2023/2668), and in particular on the consistent protection of workers' health in the application of the minimum requirements established in the aforementioned Directive and the obligations of member states and employers in activities that represent the realization of their business activities, as well as of other subjects.

  • Issue Year: 13/2024
  • Issue No: 29
  • Page Range: 460-468
  • Page Count: 8
  • Language: Croatian
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