Legislation on asbestos

Royal Decree 396/2006, of 31 March, through which applicable health and safety minimum provisions are established to works with risk of exposure to asbestos .

It is the basic standard of application in Spain to protect the hard-working human health front the exposure to asbestos during the work. The technical Guide of the INSST gives criteria and recommendations to provide the application of this Royal Decree

This Royal Decree is to be modified by the Directive (EU) 2023/2668, that it owed be adopted before 21 December 2025. This modification gives priority to the dropped out of the asbestos when dealing with other manipulation ways of the asbestos and among other new features, reduction to the tenth part the limit value, happens of 0.1 fibres/cm3 to 0.01 fibres/cm3 average at 8.

The European Commission has elaborated some "Guidelines for the management of the health risks and the security related to the asbestos at work " to provide the application of this Directive. These guidelines offer a compilation of good work experience programs in the management of the ACM directed to help to the companies on how to give priority to the dropped out of the asbestos when dealing with other manipulation ways when to assess the risk of exhibition. Additionally contribute specific solutions because of sectors.

To works with asbestos also them are of application:

• The Royal Decree 665/1997, of 12 May, on the protection of workers against the risks related to the exhibition to carcinogenic agents during the work
• The Royal Decree 374/2001, of 6 April, on the protection of the health and workers safety against the risks related to chemical agents during the work
• The Royal Decree 171/2004 on obligations of activity coordination business studies
• The Act 22/2011 on elimination of hazardous wastes

The Act 7/2022 establishes the obligation to town councils of elaborating a census of facilities and buildings of its municipality (private and public) with ACM together with a calendar to plan its retreat. In 2028 must be managed public facilities with major risk.