At second reading under assent procedure without debate, the European Parliament adopted the recommendation by Damião, which amends the Council common position in the following areas:
- providing that the Commission should ensure that information on the proposed directive's provisions related to wood dusts is available in an easily understandable form, in order to help SMEs to prepare for the entry into force of those same provisions;
- requiring that the European Parliament be informed about agreed international standards governing the measurement of exposure to substances covered by the proposed directive, proposals for changes to these standards and the results of research into new equipment, and particularly with regard to the work of the CEN-CENELEC in this area;
- requiring Member States to bring into force the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to comply with the proposed directive no later than three (rather than four) years after its adoption.�