# Council Directive 92/85/EEC of 19 October 1992 on the introduction of measures to encourage improvements in the safety and health at work of pregnant workers and workers who have recently given birth or are breastfeeding (tenth individual Directive within the meaning of Article 16 (1) of Directive 89/391/EEC), Division 3: Chemical agents

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

The following chemical agents in so far as it is known that they endanger the health of pregnant women and the unborn child and in so far as they do not yet appear in Annex II:
(a) substances and mixtures which meet the criteria for classification under Regulation (EC) No 1272/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council in one or more of the following hazard classes and hazard categories with one or more of the following hazard statements, in so far as they do not yet appear in Annex II:
germ cell mutagenicity, category 1A, 1B or 2 (H340, H341);
carcinogenicity, category 1A, 1B or 2 (H350, H350i, H351);
reproductive toxicity, category 1A, 1B or 2 or the additional category for effects on or via lactation (H360, H360D, H360FD, H360Fd, H360Df, H361, H361d, H361fd, H362);
specific target organ toxicity after single exposure, category 1 or 2 (H370, H371);
(b) chemical agents in Annex I to Directive 2004/37/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council ;
(c) mercury and mercury derivatives;
(d) antimitotic drugs;
(e) carbon monoxide;
(f) chemical agents of known and dangerous percutaneous absorption.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudr/1992/85/annex/I/division/A/division/3 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-1992-85/annex-I/division-A/division-3
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