CELEX: 51976PC0681
Language: en
Date: 1976-12-21
Title: Draft COUNCIL RESOLUTION concerning a Community Safety Week in Agriculture (submitted to the Council by the Commission)

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 ---pagebreak--- COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
                                          COM(76)681 final
                                          Brussels , 21 December 1976
                                  Draft
                           COUNCIL RESOLUTION'
          concerning a Community Safety Week in Agriculture
            ( submitted to the Council by the Commission)
COM(76 ) 681 final
 ---pagebreak---                                       COUNCIL     RESOLUTION
                                      ON THE ORGANIZATION
                        OP A COMMUNITY SAFETY^EEK IN AGRICULTURE
  Explanatory memorandum
  Agricultural employers and workers have for five years "been conducting
  a joint study of the problems affecting the health and safety of persons
   engaged in agriculture within the Joint Committee for the social problems
  of agricultural workers and the Advisory Committee on Social Problems
   affecting farmers and the members of their Families set up by the
   Commission.
   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 .
   Regulations and directives have been adopted or are being under study
    by the council for the improvement of the safety of agricultural machinery,
    ( l ), ( 2 ) ( 3 ) and (4), and for warning users of the particular risks involved
    in using dangerous chemical products ( 5 ), ( 6 ) ( 7 ). But i"t is essential for
    the users and those around them particularly the 9 million farmers and
    their families 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
     is 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 .
1 ) O.J. n. L 84 of 28.3.1974 , P. 10
2 ) O.J. n. L 191 of 15.7 . 1974 , P «           1
3 ) O.J. n. L 147 of 9-6 . 1975 , P. 24
4 ) O.J. n. L 236 of         8.9 . 1975 , P »    3
5 ) O.J. n. L 183 of 14.7 . 1975 , P. 22
6 ) O.J. n. L 189 of 11.7 . 1973 , P. 7
7 ) O.J. n. C         40 of 20 . 2 . 1975 , P * 30
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This  draft   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    Members
States and which could best be dealth 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
being of all the peoples of the Community is to be maintained,"
 ---pagebreak---                     COUNCIL RESOLUTION
            CONCERNING A COMMUNITY SAFETY WEEK
                      IN 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 October 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
         too high in all Member States ;
WHEREAS the Council Resolution of 21 January 1974 » concerning a Social
         Action Programme includes amongst its priorities the humanisation
         of living and working conditions and particularly the improvement
         of safety and health at work ;
WHEREAS the provision of safety devices for agricultural machinery will not
         be fully effective unless it is supplemented by a training pro­
         gramme intended for the users thereof ;
WHEREAS various action programmes are now operating in the Member States
         for the purpose of permanent prevention of. accidents ;
WHEREAS , on the basis of the outcome of the information campaign undertaken
         simultaneously in all 9 Member States in 1974 » government exports
         and the social partners in agriculture expressed the wish that
         such a Community action should be repeated with a view to increase
         the impact in agricultural circles and stimulating public opinion.
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    HAS ADOPTED TIIIS RESOLUTION :
1 . The Council notes with approval that the Member States are desirous not only
    to continue individual action to prevent accidents at work in agriculture
    hut also to intensify coordination of their activities in that respect
    at Community level .
2 . The Council notes with satisfaction that the Member States would , with the
    participation of the social partners , like to pursue appropriate activi­
    ties and also draw up 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 2 to 8 may 1977 » and featuring
    as its main theme : "The European Community for an accident-free farming"
    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 pro­
    gramme by providing effective aid to ensure the success of this operation
    and thereby achieve the widest   possible impact throughout the Community.
5 . The Commission is hereby invited to draw up a report on the results of
    this operation and submit suggestions for future action programmes .
 ---pagebreak---              2eme semaine communautaire de sécurité
                          en agriculture
INCIDENCES FINANCIERES
Les incidences financières du déroulement de cette deuxième semaine
communautaire de sécurité sont prévues au "budget de la Direction
Générale " Information " sous le point 08 .
Elles concernent l' établissement de maquettes pour uile affiche
communautaire d' un montant de                               100.000 F3
Sont également prévus des tirés à part d' encarts publiés dans le
magazine mensuel des Communautés ainsi que le tirage de " dossiers
d' information " destinés à la presse   : les frais de ces publications
seront pris en darge par les budgets nationaux des Bureaux de Presse
et d' Information des neuf pays .