The draft report by Véronique Trillet-Lenoir (Renew Europe, French) on the revision of the directive on occupational exposure to asbestos (see EUROPE B13102A12) received a fairly positive reception on Monday 6 February in the European Parliament’s Employment and Social Affairs Committee (EMPL).
With one major difference. While the French proposal was welcomed in that it aims to strengthen the protection of workers with a more robust method of detecting asbestos fibres than the optical...