On Thursday 15 January, the members of the European Parliament’s Committee on Employment and Social Affairs gave a generally favourable reception to the draft report by Liesbet Sommen (EPP, Belgian) on the sixth revision of the directive known as ‘CMRD’ on carcinogenic, mutagenic or reprotoxic substances at work (see EUROPE B13786A19).
But several groups have already expressed their difficulty with the proposed limit values for cobalt, an essential critical substance that the Belgian...