CELEX: 51974PC1140
Language: en
Date: 1974-07-22
Title: Draft for a COUNCIL RESOLUTION OF THE ORGANIZATION OF A COMMUNITY SAFETY WEEK IN AGRICULTURE 15 or 22 September 1974 (submitted to the Council by the Commission)

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                                                      COM(74)1140 final
                                                      Brussels , 22 July 1974
                                  Draft for a
                               COUNCIL RESOLUTION
                               OF THE ORGANIZATION
                   OP A COMMUNITY SAFETYWEEK IN" AGRICULTURE
                            15 or 22 September 1974
                  ( submitted to the Council "by the Commission )
   Com(74 ) 1140 final
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Explanatory memorandum
Agricultural employers and. workers have for three years been conducting a
joint study , within the Committee set up by the Commission, of the problems
affecting the health and safety of persons engaged in agriculture .
This study has revealed , in each country , a large number of accidents or
cases of illness caused mainly by the rapid mechanization of farms and
the increasingly widespread use of pesticides and insecticides .
For exanrale :
in 1969 , in Italy , 349 persons were killed when using agricultural tractors ;
in 1970 » i*1 Germany , there were 22030 accidents , of which 1.379 were fatal ,
in the agricultural sector ;
in 1972 , in Great Britain, there were 6.212 accidents , of which 120 were
fatal , in the same sector.
Regulations and directives have been adopted or are being under study by
the Council for the improvement of the safety of agricultural machinery ,
but it is essential for the users and1 those around them ( 12 million people
are involved) to be made aware of dangers which are not always apparent .
In each of the Member States , there are annual projects aimed at reducing
the number of these accidents through publicity , demonstration, etc ., but
it was felt that they would be more effective if backed up by a Community
project , which would have its impact upon all those concerned at the same
time , and which would permit the use of greater resources .
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  This project is based on the final communique of -the Heads of State and Go­
  vernment , which urged the need to improve the quality of life as well as the
  standard of living, and on the Council Resolution of 21 January 1974 on "the
  Social Action Programme , in which it is stated :
  "•••.. there are problems in the social field which are common to all Member
   States and which could best be dealt with on a Community basis rather than
   in isolation...... It has been recognized in all Member States that this
   whole process demands a more active Community social policy if the well-
v being of all the peoples of the Community is to be maintained."
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                                 COUNCIL RESOLUTION
                        CONCERNING A COMMUNITY SAITLTIT-WEEK
                                     EST AGRICULTURE
THE COUNCIL OP THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES ,
HAVING REGARD to the Treaties establishing the European Communities !
HAVING REGARD to the draft from the Commission ;
WHEREAS the Heads of State or Government meeting in Paris on 19 and 20 Octo­
           ber 1972 considered that economic expansion is not an end in itself
           but must result in an improvement in the quality of life as well as
           in standards of living so. that progress may be placed at the service
         . of mankind ;
WHEREAS in the agricultural sector the number of accidents at work remains
           very high in all Member States ;
WHEREAS the Council Resolution of 21 January 1974 » concerning a Social Action
           Programme includes amongst its priorities the establishment of appro­
           priate consultations between Member States on their social protection
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           policies and the establishment of a programme relating to safety at
      ■ ■ work ;
WHEREAS the provision of safety devices for agricultural machinery will not
           be fully effective unless it is supplemented by a training programme
           intended for the users thereof ;
WHEREAS various action programmes are now operating in the Member States for
           the purpose of permanent prevention of accidents and, following con­
           sultation with government experts > it seems particularly desirable
           that such action programmes be coordinated at community level with
           a view to making them more effective and producing a greater impact
           on the general public ;
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1 . The Council notes with approval that the Member states are desirous not
     only to continue individual action to prevent accidents at work in agri­
     culture but also to intensify coordination of their activities in that respect
     at Community level .
2 ., The Council notes with satisfaction that the Member States would like the
     social partners to participate in the organisation of appropriate activities
     and also in the drawing up of specific action programmes to that effect *
3 . Consequently , the Council fully supports the suggestion put forward by
     the Commission to organise a Community safety Week in agriculture under
     Community auspices which would be held from September 15-22 , 1974 » and
     featuring as its main theme : " Safe farming in Europe" on the basis of
     close cooperation between the Member States and the social partners .
4 * The Council considers that the Commission should offer its cooperation to
     Member States and the social partners in respect of this action programme
     by providing such aid as shall prove necessary and desirable to ensure the
     success of this operation and thereby achieve the widest possible impact
     throughout the Community .
5 . The Commission is herby invited to draw up a report on the results of
     this operation and submit suggestions for future action programmes