24/05/2024 (Agence Europe) – On Friday 24 May, the Commission sent a letter of formal notice to 11 Member States (Germany, Denmark, Spain, Greece, Italy, Luxembourg, Poland, Portugal, Austria, Slovakia and the Czech Republic) for failing to communicate the transposition of new measures to protect workers from the risks related to exposure to carcinogenic, mutagenic or reprotoxic substances at work. In 2022, the EU adopted Directive 2022/431, which extends the scope of the Carcinogens and Mutagens Directive to include reprotoxic substances, sets workplace exposure limits for acrylonitrile and nickel compounds and lowers the limits for benzene. Around 80,000 people die every year in the EU as a result of exposure to carcinogenic substances in the workplace. The deadline for transposition was 5 April. (SP)