Opinion of the Advocate General — ECLI:EU:C:2002:547
Date: 2002-09-26
Based on: Treaty establishing the European Economic Community (1957)
Subject matter: Social Policy
Procedure: Action for failure to fulfil obligations - successful
Origin: Italy

Summary of the Judgment 
Social policy — Protection of health and safety of workers — Directive 89/655 
concerning the minimum safety and health requirements for the use of work equipment 
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SUMMARY — CASE C-65/01 
by workers at work — Transposition requiring the putting into effect of minimum 
required standards — Insufficiency of legislation limited to requiring the necessary 
adaptation of the safety regulations to progress 
(Council Directives 89/391 and 89/655) 
Directive 89/655 concerning the minimum 
safety and health requirements for the use 
of work equipment by workers at work 
(second individual Directive within the 
meaning of Article 16(1) of Directive 
89/391 on the introduction of measures to 
encourage improvements in the safety and 
health of workers at work), as amended by 
Directive 95/63, is not transposed with the 
necessary clarity and precision by national 
legislation which requires the necessary 
adaptation of the safety regulations to 
progress, in line with the approach taken 
by the directive, but without putting into 
effect its minimum requirements. 
(see paras 45, 47, 48) 
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