Definition: European schedule of occupational diseases

Category: Living conditions

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. http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=CELEX:31990H0326:EN:HTML