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European Commission
Employment, Social Affairs & Inclusion

Health and safety at work - Senior Labour Inspectors

Committee
Senior Labour Inspectors Committee
The Senior Labour Inspectors Committee (SLIC) started to meet in an informal way in 1982 to assist the
European Commission in monitoring the enforcement of EU legislation at the national level.
A Commission Decision (95/319/EC) gave the Committee formal status in 1995 with a mandate to give its
opinion to the Commission, either at the Commissions request or on its own initiative, on all problems
relating to the enforcement by the Member States of Community law on health and safety at work.
The Committee is regulated by:
Commission Decision of 12 July 1995 setting up a Committee of Senior Labour Inspectors
(95/319/EC)
Commission Decision (2008/823/EC) of 22 October 2008 amending COMM/95/319
Commission Decision of 13 February 2013 on the appointment of members of the Committee of
Senior Labour Inspectors for the period from 1 January 2013 to 31 December 2015 (2013/C 43/08)
The principal activities of SLIC are to:
Define common principles of labour inspection in the field of health and safety at work and
developing methods of assessing the national systems of inspection in relation to those principles
Promote improved knowledge and mutual understanding of the different national systems and
practices of labour inspection, the methods and legal frameworks for action
Develop exchanges of information between national labour inspection services about their
experiences in monitoring the enforcement of secondary Community law on health and safety at
work
Promote a labour inspector exchange programme between national administrations and the
setting up of inspector training programmes
Develop a reliable and efficient system of rapid information exchange between labour
inspectorates about health and safety issues
Establish active cooperation with labour inspectorates in third countries to promote better
understanding and to assist in resolving any cross-border problems
Study the possible impact of other Community policies on labour inspection activities relating to
health and safety at work and working conditions.
The Committee is composed of the Commission and one representative of the labour inspection services
of each EU Member State. It assembles for a meeting every six months in the EU Member State holding
the EU Presidency.
For further information about SLIC and its activities see the library entries.

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