Dutch Health Council Expert Committee

The procedure has three stages A group of independent experts (currently the Dutch Health Council Expert Committee on Occupational Standards, or Commissie WGD) makes a recommendation for an OEL for a given substance, based on toxicological considerations. A tripartite committee (the OEL Subcommittee) then considers this recommendation in the light of its socioeconomic and technical consequences and the practical feasibility of introducing it as an OEL, and makes a recommendation to the Minister of Social Affairs and Employment. The Minister may then decide to set the... 

Dutch Expert Committee on Occupational Standards (DECOS) Health Council of the Netherlands, pp 1-21, 1997... 

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