Critical shortages of medicines have become a frequent threat to public health throughout the EU. We assessed EU measures to ensure medicine availability. We conclude that there is not yet an effective framework for critical shortages of medicines. While the European Medicines Agency has provide...
The Carcinogens, Mutagens and Reprotoxic Substances Directive (Directive 2004/37/EC), hereinafter the CMRD, protects workers from exposure to carcinogens, mutagens or reprotoxic substances at work. This study supports the European Commission’s Impact Assessment (IA) of a potential Occupational E...
The Carcinogens, Mutagens and Reprotoxic substances Directive (Directive 2004/37/EC), hereinafter the CMRD, protects workers from exposure to carcinogens, mutagens or reprotoxic substances at work. The aim of this study is to support the European Commission’s Impact Assessment (IA) of a potentia...
Carcinogens, Mutagens and Reprotoxic substances Directive (Directive 2004/37/EC), hereinafter referred to as CMRD, protects workers from exposure to carcinogens, mutagens or reprotoxic substances at work. Article 2 (in paragraph (a)(ii)) of the CMRD defines a ‘carcinogen’ as: “a substance, mixtu...
This study supports the European Commission’s Impact Assessment of a potential Occupational Exposure Limit (OEL) value for isoprene under the scope of Carcinogens, Mutagens and Reprotoxic substances Directive (CMRD, Directive 2004/37/EC). This report estimates costs and benefits for a range of p...
This methodological note and data collection synopsis summarises the methods used and data collected in the project ‘Study on collecting the most recent information on substances to analyse health, socio-economic and environmental impacts in connection with possible amendments of Directive 2004/...
The Environmental Footprint (EF) methods, recommended by the European Commission, provide standardised metrics for evaluating the environmental performance of products and organisations within the EU. This report describes the outcomes from the Agricultural Working Group (AWG), milestone 1 deali...
In 2024, the Safety Gate Rapid Alert System surpassed all previous records in protecting consumers from dangerous products. The system recorded a record-high 4,137 alerts, almost doubling the notifications since 2022 and confirming an upward trend from the previous year. The Commission collabora...
