9.8.95 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 188/11 COMMISSION COMMISSION DECISION of 12 July 1995 setting up a Committee of Senior Labour Inspectors (95/319/EC) THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, Whereas a ‘Group of Senior Labour Inspectors’ has infor- mally been in operation since 1982; Whereas the Commission communication () on its programme concerning safety, hygiene and health at work envisages the formalization of regular meetings of this Group ; Whereas the Council conclusions of 21 December 1992 on the effective implementation and enforcement of Community legislation in the area of social affairs (? invite the Member States and the Commission to encou- rage and support continued close cooperation between members of the Group, with due regard to the principle of subsidiarity ; Whereas the Commission communication(®) on its programme concerning safety, hygiene and health at work provides for the formalization of the ‘Group of Senior Labour Inspectors’ as a Committee ; Whereas the Council resolution of 16 June 1994 on the development of administrative cooperation on the imple- mentation and enforcement of Community legislation in the internal market (¥} develops an approach to adminis- trative cooperation between the Member States and between these and the Commission, based on obligations of mutual assistance and transparency and on the prin- ciples of proportionality and confidentiality ; Whereas this approach should also be adopted in imple- menting and enforcing Community social legislation in the field of health and safety at work in particular as ) O] No C 28, 3. 2. 1988, p. 3. ) O] No C 49, 19. 2. 1993, p. 6. () COM (95) 282 final. () O] No C 179, 1. 7.'1994, p. 1. stated in the Commission’s White Paper on European social policy (§ 10B) and the medium Term Social Action Programme ; Whereas the identification, analysis and resolution of practical problems related to implementing, and monitor- ing the enforcement of, secondary Community legislation on health and safety at work fall mainly within the competence of national labour inspection services and require close cooperation between those services and the Commission ; Whereas the ‘Committee of Senior Labour Inspectors’, by virtue of its long experience, constitutes an appropriate framework for monitoring, on the basis of close coopera- tion between its members and the Commission, the effec- tive and equivalent enforcement of secondary Community law on health and safety at work, and for the rigorous analysis of the practical questions involved in monitoring the enforcement of legislation in this field; Whereas this Decision does not conflict with the obliga- tions of the Member States arising under the ILO Labour Inspection Convention of 11 July 1947 (No 81), HAS DECIDED AS FOLLOWS : Article 1 1. The Commission shall be assisted by a ‘Committee of Senior Labour Inspectors’, hereinafter referred to as the ‘Committee’. 2. The Committee shall consist of representatives of the labour inspection services of the Member States. Article 2 1. The Commiteree shall give its opinion to the Commission, either at the Commission’s request or on its own initiative, on all problems relating to the enforce- ment by the Member States of Community law on health and safety at work.