Last update: 19/05/2014
European Schedule of Occupational Diseases
The development of a European schedule of occupational diseases has three main aims: - to improve knowledge of the subject at European level (collection and comparability of data); - to step up prevention: the Member States are asked to define quantified objectives with a view to reducing the rate of these diseases; - to provide assistance to the workers concerned to enable them more easily to prove the link between their occupational activities and their disease and apply for compensation.
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