The main aim should be the protection of the health and safety of consumers.

To sum up, the proposal should aim to strengthen the protection of the health and safety of women, increase their employment prospects and help tackle demographic ageing.

The Community directive on working time - and therefore the current proposals - are based, as the House will know, on the protection of the health and safety of workers.

As Parliament, in the case of this legislation, we can contribute to ensuring that the protection of the health and safety of citizens and of disadvantaged people is taken into account.

Mr President, if we support the social dimension of the European Union, we must give it practical expression by giving priority to the protection of the health and safety of workers.

The Government claims that measures in the directive - including the protection of the health and safety of young people under 18 who are in work - are not needed because existing legislation is satisfactory.

There can be no fundamental and effective protection of the health and safety of workers within the framework of the EU, which supports the profitability and the competitiveness of capital by undermining public health.

They also refer to assurances given by the European Commission and its officials all along that this Directive would exclusively concern emissions into the environment and not the protection of the health and safety of people at work.

On Oct. 27 Judge Foley ruled that a jury should decide whether there was a "failure of Federal officers and employees to observe objective standards of care for the protection of the health and safety of human beings" that would amount to "actionable negligence" under Federal law.

I consider that this legislation on vibrations will be a fundamental step to achieving better protection of the health and safety of workers exposed to risks arising from physical agents, but of course, we have to take into account the economic impact, the impact in the enterprises - the small, medium and large.

I fully subscribe to the determination to improve the protection of the health and safety of consumers, preventing, which is what this new directive does, substances classified as carcinogens, mutagens or substances toxic to reproduction and preparations containing these substances from being marketed for the use of the general public.

There were a variety of prosecutions in the protection of health and safety.

The intention of the introduction of this legislation, as I said earlier, was protection of health and safety.

Directives concerning the protection of health and safety of workers: simplifying and rationalising practical implementation reports (debate)

"Our basic position is that protection of health and safety and protection of the quality of construction are traditional areas of local regulation," said Thomas R. Adams, a San Mateo lawyer representing the construction unions.

The Commission nevertheless believes that minimum standards of protection of health and safety with regard to working time should apply to all workers, including share fishermen, that is to say members of the crew of a fishing vessel who are remunerated by a share in the earnings of the vessel.