MEPs have ruled against common EU standards for the protection of workers against sunlight, suggesting individual member states should decide on their own whether to require employers to introduce such measures or not.
The plenary in Strasbourg supported the health and safety directive on optical radiation as a whole on Wednesday (7 September), but MEPs voted down a proposal that the measures included in it should also cover natural source of radiation - sunlight.
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