Legislative background
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Euskalduna Conference Centre, Bilbao
The event brought together leading European experts and decision makers that discussed the results of the two-year campaign, shared knowledge and explored future strategies for effective prevention, and sustainable management of dangerous substances...
The Directive establishes a fifth list of indicative occupational exposure limit values.
The social partners from the wood-based panels industries, the European Federation of Building and Woodworkers (EFBWW) and the European Panel Federation (EPF), signed the social partner agreement in 2018. By doing so, they anticipated on the coming into force of the binding occupational exposure limit value (OELV) for formaldehyde.