# Regulation of the Minister of Health – CMR agents in the working environment (registers)

Regulation of the Minister of Health of 26 July 2024 on chemical substances, their mixtures, agents or technological processes with carcinogenic, mutagenic or reprotoxic effects in the working environment (rozporządzenie w sprawie substancji chemicznych, ich mieszanin, czynników lub procesów technologicznych o działaniu rakotwórczym, mutagennym lub reprotoksycznym w środowisku pracy)

- Status: In force
- Legal order: Poland
- Legal area: Chemicals and worker health
- Dz.U. 2024 poz. 1126
- Business profile: Mining, Smelting, Semi-fabrication, Recycling

## In brief

Covers reprotoxic substances (inter alia lead) and requires registers of work and of workers exposed to CMR, annual information to the State Sanitary Inspection (PIS) and the National Labour Inspectorate (PIP), and retention of registers for up to 40 years.

## Key obligations

- CMR measurements in accordance with the provisions of Art. 227 § 2 of the Labour Code (KP), methods for early detection of exposure in the event of accidents (§ 4(1))
- closed system and, where not possible, exposure as low as possible (§ 4(2)–(3))
- register of work involving CMR (processes, substances, workstations, number of workers ≤0.1 NDS and others, by sex) (§ 6(1))
- information to the State Voivodeship Sanitary Inspector (PWIS) and the District Labour Inspectorate (OIP) without delay after the start of activity and annually by 15 January (§ 6(2), Annex 2)
- register of workers with PESEL number (§ 7); retention: CM 40 years, reprotoxic 5 years after the end of exposure (§ 8(1))
- periodic training and information on risks, including the additional risk of tobacco smoking (§ 11)

## Competent authority

State Voivodeship Sanitary Inspector; District Labour Inspector; central register – Institute of Occupational Medicine in Łódź (§ 6(3))

## Penalties

Art. 283 § 1 of the Labour Code – fine of PLN 2,000 to 60,000

## Entry into force

28.07.2024

## Application

from 28.07.2024 (§ 17); replaced the Regulation of the Minister of Health of 24.07.2012 (Dz.U. 2024 poz. 156)

## Key dates

- 28.07.2024: entry into force; registers under the 2012 Regulation become registers under the new Regulation (§ 16)
- 15.01.2027: annual CMR information for 2026 to the PWIS and the OIP (§ 6(2))

## Related acts

- [Labour Code – chemical agents and CMR (Arts 221, 222, 227)](https://igmnir.org/dane/prawo/en/pl-kp-chemikalia/)
- [CMRD – carcinogens, mutagens and reprotoxic substances](https://igmnir.org/dane/prawo/en/eu-cmrd/)
- [Regulation of the Minister of Health – tests and measurements of harmful agents](https://igmnir.org/dane/prawo/en/pl-pomiary/)
- [CMRD 6 – cobalt, PAHs, isoprene, 1,4-dioxane, welding fumes](https://igmnir.org/dane/prawo/en/eu-cmrd6/)

## Official sources

- [Text of the act](https://isap.sejm.gov.pl/isap.nsf/DocDetails.xsp?id=WDU20240001126)
- [Journal of Laws – Dz.U. 2024 poz. 1126](https://dziennikustaw.gov.pl/DU/2024/1126)

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Register as of: 22.10.2026. The official text of the act prevails. IGMNiR. On the website: https://igmnir.org/en/law/#akt-pl-cmr-rozp