Abstract

The purpose of the present article is to analyse the judgement of the CJEU of 22 December 2022, C-392/21, which raises a crucial issue connected with health protection of employees performing work on positions with display screen equipment. In its judgement, the CJEU points out how to understand the concept of “special corrective glasses or contact lenses” included in Article 9 of the Council Directive 90/270/ EEC of 29 May 1990, in regard to minimal requirements in the field of safety and health at work while using devices equipped with visual display screens (fifth individual Directive within the meaning of Article 16(1) of Directive 89/391/EEC), and also how an employer may fulfil a duty that falls upon them in regard to providing an employee with special corrective appliances. In the opinion of 14 July 2022, the Advocate General T. Ćapeta emphasized that “the interpretation which the Court is to give to that term will have wider implications, not only for the health of the applicant, but also for the system of protection under national law of all workers required to work at computer screens”.