About the interest of a space of dialogue and exchange between occupational health services of the European Union involved in the monitoring of workers exposed to ionising radiations

The members states of union have in common the Community directives, transposed by each country in their national legislations.In practice organizations, and even regulations are different from one country to another for more historical and cultural reasons than strictly technical ones. Common objectives and necessity of exchange appeared more strongly because of increase mobility of exposed workers in the European Union and the necessity to facilitate their entry in the European nuclear power plant s respecting quality of medical and dosimetric follow-up, the promotion of the creation of an European worker passport, the strict respect of the European regulations, the necessity of common references for crisis trans-bordering radiological injured persons, the interest of exchanges about good medical or technical practices or specific knowledge's in subject such as therapeutic and follow-up, internal contamination, skin dose..., the interest of exchanges about the technical quality process in laboratories or occupational health services. This group could be integrated in radiation protection society of each country for example. this group will be able to exchange by meetings, technical groups, publications, specific workshops. The different country actually represented are France, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, Spain. (N.C.)