Pregledni rad

https://doi.org/10.31306/s.67.4.6

New regulations on the protection of workers from risks due to exposure to asbestos: Directive (EU) and Rulebook

Marinko Đ. Učur ; Rijeka, Hrvatska
Cvetan Kovač orcid.org/0000-0001-8984-942X *

* Dopisni autor.

Sažetak

Protecting workers from risks due to exposure to asbestos is not only a matter of safety and health protection of workers at work. It is a complex problem and relationship with an interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary character. The right to safety and health protection of workers at work creates (innovates) legal norms of different addressees, names, content, temporal and spatial validity, and the adoption procedure, trying to create a basis and framework for the best possible protection of workers from risks due to exposure to asbestos.
On November 22, 2023, the European Parliament and the Council of the European Union (hereinafter: EU) adopted Directive (EU) 2023/2668 amending Directive 2009/148/EC on the protection of workers from the risks associated with exposure to asbestos at work (hereinafter: Directive (EU ) 2023/2668).
It is a new content related to the protection of workers from the risks associated with exposure to asbestos at work, established in a special procedure prescribed by the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, which, together with other designations, constitutes objective nomotechnical assumptions for the drafting of regulations, in general and emphasized in the EU .
This paper describes: the reasons for amending Directive 2009/48/EC on the protection of workers from the risks associated with exposure to asbestos at work (further: Directive 2009/48/EC); the content of basic issues and relationships in Directive (EU) 2023/2668), and in particular on the consistent protection of workers' health in the application of the minimum requirements established in the aforementioned Directive and the obligations of member states and employers in activities that represent the realization of their business activities, as well as of other subjects .
This paper is about, among other regulations, Directive (EU) 2023/2668 of the European Parliament and the Council of 22 November 2023. on the amendment of Directive 2009/198/EC on the protection of workers from the risks associated with exposure to asbestos at work (Official Gazette 30.11.2023), the Act on Occupational Safety ("N.N." 71/14, 118/14, 94/18 and 96/18) in the Rulebook on the Protection of Workers from Risks Due to Exposure to Asbestos („N.N.“ 15/25).

Ključne riječi

European Union, Directive 2023/2668, risk of exposure of workers to asbestos at work, obligations of states, employers, workers and other entities, exposure to asbestos, regulations, safety, health protection, workers at work, risks, Rulebook on the Protection of Workers from Risks Due to Exposure to Asbestos

Hrčak ID:

343185

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/343185

Datum izdavanja:

13.1.2026.

Podaci na drugim jezicima: hrvatski

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