What changed
The only substantive change is the rephrasing of the description of workers facing attacks, now specifying public authority officials performing law enforcement duties. #2 The other change is formal: the decimal separator in a statistic is updated. #1
1 change of substance, plus 1 formal. Each change below carries a one-line ✦ note from the same model. Written from the two texts only — read the highlighted passages before relying on it.
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Change #2 Substance
Replaces 'public service workers' with 'public authority officials performing law enforcement duties', and changes the punctuation after 'phenomenon' from a comma to a semicolon.
F. whereas in recent years, several Member States have reported a significant increase in attacks against public serviceauthority workersofficials performing law enforcement duties, as well as emergency rescue workers; whereas certain professional activities, in particular those related to the exercise of public authority and the legitimate use of force, are characterised by structural and permanent exposure to the risk of serious physical injury or death resulting from deliberate acts of violence by third parties; whereas threats and deliberate acts of violence against emergency rescue workers, such as paramedics and firefighters, are a rather new phenomenon,phenomenon; whereas such exposure, involving deliberate acts by third parties, distinguishes these professions from other forms of hazardous work and justifies specific recognition of the nature of the risks involved;