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EU regional and local leaders supported the European Commission's proposals to revise a directive on protecting workers from the effects of asbestos, while stressing that the directive deals with asbestos in a very fragmented way and that the broad spectrum of asbestos regulation should be strengthened by a European strategy for asbestos removal, which would ensure an integrated approach of different policies and implement systemic and effective solutions in all Member States on inventory, monitoring, safe disposal, storage, education and training methods.