Directive 90/270 / EEC
Directive 90/270 / EEC |
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Title: | Council Directive of 29 May 1990 on the minimum requirements relating to safety and health protection when working with display screen equipment (fifth individual directive within the meaning of Article 16 (1) of Directive 89/391 / EEC) (90/270 / EEC) |
Designation: (not official) |
VDU policy |
Scope: | EU |
Legal matter: | Employment Law |
Basis: | Article 16 (1) of Directive 89/391 / EEC , Article 118a of the EEC Treaty |
Come into effect: | June 11, 1990 |
To be implemented in national law by: |
December 31, 1992 |
Implemented by: |
Germany workplace ordinance |
Reference: | OJ L 156 of 21.6.1990, pp. 14-18 |
Full text |
Consolidated version (not official) basic version |
The regulation must have been implemented in national law. | |
Please note the information on the current version of legal acts of the European Union ! |
The Directive 90/270 / EEC is an EC Directive (originally: EEC Directive) of the Council of the European Union of 29 May 1990, the minimum requirements in terms of safety and health at work on display screen equipment controls.
Like all European directives, the VDU directive is addressed to the member states and must therefore be implemented in national law by the individual member states.
Structure and content of the guideline
Section I: General Provisions
This section sets out the objectives of the directive (Article 1) and definitions (Article 2).
Section II: Obligations of the employer
The regulations in this section relate to the requirement of a workplace analysis by the employer, in particular "for possible risk to the eyesight as well as for physical problems and psychological stress " (Article 3), transitional regulations (Articles 4 and 5), as well as information and instruction (Article 6), the work flow (Article 7) and the involvement (Article 8) of workers and the protection of their eyes and eyesight (Article 9).
Section III: Other Provisions
Article 10 regulates purely technical adaptations of the annex to technical developments and Articles 11 and 12 in the final provisions concern, among other things, the legal effect of the directive.
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The annex to the directive contains minimum requirements on:
- Device, not only referring to the screen, but also to the keyboard, work surface and work chair,
- Workplace environment, including lighting, noise, heat, radiation and others,
- Human-machine interface, including the design, selection, acquisition and modification of software.
These take into account the ergonomics of the workplace.
See also
Web links
- Official Journal of the European Communities: (PDF) Council Directive 90/270 / EEC of 29 May 1990 on the minimum requirements for safety and health protection when working with display screen equipment (fifth individual directive within the meaning of Article 16 (1) of Directive 89/391 / EWG) , online at eur-lex.europa.eu (PDF; 603 kB), accessed on December 7, 2016.
- European study: Evaluation of the VDU Directive 90/270 EEC , online at bmas.de, accessed on December 7, 2016.
- Pilot study: Development of a methodical procedure for evaluating the quality of EU directives: A pilot study based on the VDU Directive (Directive 90/270 EEC) , online at bmas.de (PDF; 41 kB), accessed on December 7, 2016.
- European working group "Evaluation of the VDU Directive " ( European Agency for Safety and Health at Work ), not available on December 7, 2016.