The European ElectroMagnetic Fields Forum (EEMFF) is a pan-european network of national occupational safety and health institutions aiming to enhance the implementation of the EMF Directive (2013/35/EU) in the EU member states. To provide occupational safety and health specialists with a platform to discuss their experiences and to exchange best practice, the EEMFF organised a conference in November 2021, hosted by the Federal Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (BAuA), Germany via webex.

To establish a dialogue between European and international occupational safety and health specialists, the conference offered several keynotes supported by poster presentations and in-depth workshops on the most relevant occupational safety and health topics concerning EMF:

• Evolving the EMF Directive 2013/35/EU,
• New and complex Sources, Future of occupational EMF Research,
• The Role of Standardisation to enhance the Implementation of the EMF-Directive 2013/35/EU,
• Workers at particular Risk, and
• Best practice in Exposure Assessment.

More than 90 participants from 29 EU- and non EU-countries contributed to the first EEMFF-conference.

Selected presentations:

A brief overview of the history and possible future of Directive 2013/35/EU (PDF, 1 MB)
Laura Vicente, European Commission, Directorate General "Employment, Social Affairs, and Inclusion"

Risk assessment for workers with AIMDs exposed by electromagnetic fields (PDF, 2 MB)
Carsten Alteköster, Institute for Occupational Safety and Health of the German Social Accident Insurance (IFA), Germany

EU Directive 2013/35/EC - What needs to be done? The way forward (PDF, 216 KB)
Michel Israel, Mihaela Ivanova, Tsvetelina Shalamanova, National Center of Public Health and Analyses, Sofia, Bulgaria

The next EEMFF conference is already scheduled for 2023. You are kindly invited to contribute with ideas or even in person. Stay tuned.