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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8853

22 December 2004
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/court of justice
Austria violates legislation providing basic safety standards for people carrying heavy loads at work

Luxembourg, 21/12/2004 (Agence Europe) - The Fourth Chamber of the European Court of Justice has found Austria (more specifically the Land of Carinthia) guilty of failing to transpose the 1990 EC Directive on the manual handing of loads where there is a risk, particularly of back injury, to workers. The Court points out that a Member State may not plead situations in its internal legal order, including those resulting from its federal organisation, in order to justify failure to comply with...

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