Negligence commission

On the basis of these differences in species response it was concluded that phthalates do not pose a significant health hazard to humans. This view is home out by the EU Commission decision of July 25, 1990 which states that DEHP shall not be classified or labeled as a carcinogenic or an irritant substance (42). This has been reaffirmed in a comprehensive review (43) which concludes that "peroxisome proliferators constitute a discrete class of nongenotoxic rodent hepatocarcinogens and that the relevance of thek hepatocarcinogenic effects for human hazard assessment is considered to be negligible."... 

The number of installations covered by the ETS Directive was 357 when the NAP was submitted to the European Commission in March 2004. The number of installations has since increased to 380. This increase has a negligible effect on the total coverage of the directive, which is about 62% of Danish CO2 emissions. The increase was caused by... 

The Low Pay Commission has sponsored a growing body of evidence on the NMW and much of this has found negligible impacts on employment levels, albeit there are problems for some small employers the impacts on wage inflation have... 

The court then proceeded to apply this standard to various provisions of the Commission s regulation. As the following excerpts from its analysis indicate, the court explicitly recognized that the level of risk that the Commission is required to demonstrate is directly proportional to the burdens imposed by its standard and, where such burdens will be negligible, a minimal showing of risk will suffice ... 

Negligent acts of omission that contribute to causing harm or help create an unreasonable risk of harm can be just as much a violation of FEREl and ethical responsibilities derived from it as any deliberate harm-causing act of commission. 

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