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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-1991-383/introduction",
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  "legislation": "eudr/1991/383",
  "legislation_title": "Council Directive of 25 June 1991 supplementing the measures to encourage improvements in the safety and health at work of workers with a fixed-duration employment relationship or a temporary employment relationship (91/383/EEC)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-1991-383",
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  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Council Directive\nof 25 June 1991\nsupplementing the measures to encourage improvements in the safety and health at work of workers with a fixed-duration employment relationship or a temporary employment relationship\n(91/383/EEC)\nTHE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,\nHaving regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, and in particular Article 118a thereof,\nHaving regard to the proposal from the Commission,\nIn cooperation with the European Parliament,\nHaving regard to the opinion of the Economic and Social Committee,\nWhereas Article 118a of the Treaty provides that the Council shall adopt, by means of Directives, minimum requirements for encouraging improvements, especially in the working environment, to guarantee a better level of protection of the safety and health of workers;\nWhereas, pursuant to the said Article, Directives must avoid imposing administrative, financial and legal constraints which would hold back the creation and development of small and medium-sized undertakings;\nWhereas recourse to forms of employment such as fixed-duration employment and temporary employment has increased considerably;\nWhereas research has shown that in general workers with a fixed-duration employment relationship or temporary employment relationship are, in certain sectors, more exposed to the risk of accidents at work and occupational diseases than other workers;\nWhereas these additional risks in certain sectors are in part linked to certain particular modes of integrating new workers into the undertaking; whereas these risks can be reduced through adequate provision of information and training from the beginning of employment;\nWhereas the Directives on health and safety at work, notably Council Directive 89/391/EEC of 12 June 1989 on the introduction of measures to encourage improvements in the safety and health of workers at work, contain provisions intended to improve the safety and health of workers in general;\nWhereas the specific situation of workers with a fixed-duration employment relationship or a temporary employment relationship and the special nature of the risks they face in certain sectors calls for special additional rules, particularly as regards the provision of information, the training and the medical surveillance of the workers concerned;\nWhereas this Directive constitutes a practical step within the framework of the attainment of the social dimension of the internal market,\nHAS ADOPTED THIS DIRECTIVE:",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "OJ No C 224, 8. 9. 1990, p. 4."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Opinion delivered on 20 November 1990 (not yet published in the Official Journal) and OJ No C 158, 17. 6. 1991."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "OJ No C 332, 31. 12. 1990, p. 167"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "OJ No L 183, 29. 6. 1989, p. 1."
    }
  ],
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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