Foreign and EU limit values

The European Commission establishes two kinds of occupational exposure limit values or OELs (indicative OELs and binding OELs) which are published in various directives. The currently applicable limit values can be found in the following directives:

Indicative OELs

1. List of indicative OELs (Directive 2000/39/EC)
2. List of indicative OELs (Directive 2006/15/EC)
3. List if indicative OELs (Directive 2009/161/EU)

Binding OELs

• Chemical Agents Directive (Directive 98/24/EC)
• Cancer Directive (Directive 2004/37/EC)
• Asbestos Directive (Directive 2009/148/EC)

In cooperation with experts of the countries named below, the IFA has gathered the nationally applicable limit values in the workplace air and the EU limit values in a database. The database contains the limit values from the following countries and sources:

• Austria
• Belgium
• Canada (Quebec)
• Denmark
• European Union
• France
• Germany
• Great Britain
• Japan
• Hungary
• Italy
• Poland
• Spain
• Sweden
• Switzerland
• The Netherlands
• USA (OSHA)