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European Parliament EMF Committee Votes
 ----- Original Message -----*From:* Andrew MichrowskiFor your records.------- Original Message Follows -------*From: *Elizabeth Kelley*Subject: *European Parliament EMF Committee Votes*Date: *Wed, 4 Mar 2009 12:37:30 -0700MOTION FOR A EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT RESOLUTIONOn Health Concerns Associated with Electromagnetic FieldsIn a 43-1 vote, the European Parliament Committee on the Environment,Public Health and Food Safety adopted OVERWHELMINGLY a Resolutionurgingthe European Commission to recognize growing public and scientificconcern over health risks from electromagnetic fields. The Resolutionwill be voted on in plenary by the full Parliament on 26 March 2009.This vote by the Parliament’s Environmental Committee on February 23,2009 mirrors the 522-16 vote by the full Parliament last September onthe EU Environment and Health Action Plan which called on the EuropeanCouncil to /‘amend its Recommendation 1999/519/EC in order to take intoaccount the Member States' best practices and thus to set stricter exposure limits for all equipment which emits electromagnetic fields inthe frequencies between 0.1 MHz and 300 GHz’/.The Resolution identified existing conditions that have lead to the needfor the Commission to take urgent notice and take action to address theexponential growth of new technologies that may place societies atincreased health risks, and to review the scientific basis and adequacyof the EMF limits. _Highlights of Adopted Motion (Summary of 29 Points Adopted inResolution)_ • Calls for review of adequacy of the existing EMF limits.• Calls for specific consideration of biological effects.
 
• Calls for Member States and industry to address new technologies toreduce EMF exposure• Encourages negotiation for new cell siting and transmission lines toavoid siting too close to schools, retirement homes, and health careinstitutions.• Calls for studies on electromagnetic compatibility of artificial EMFwith the living human body.• Calls on the Commission to issue an annual report on EU levels of EMFand actions taken to protect human health and the environment.• Calls for worker protection from EMF (steps to speed implementationof Directive 2004/40/EC)• Deplores the delay in publication of the final Interphone Report, andasks the Commission to ask those in charge of the Interphone Project whyno definitive findings have been published and, should it receive ananswer, to inform Parliament and the Member States without delay.• Requests the Commission to earmark funds for awareness campaigns for young Europeans who are cell phone users, including information onhealth risks and safer methods of use.• Calls for ICNIRP and WHO to be more transparent and open to dialoguein standard-setting• Proposes the EU’s Indoor Air Quality policy should encompass study of wireless (indoor WIFI, DECT at home) and in public venues.• Calls for improved consumer information and labelling on wirelessdevices.• Calls for a single standard for ELF exposure along electrichigh-voltage grids.• Calls on Member States to recognize persons that suffer fromelectrohypersensitivity as being disabled so as to grant them adequateprotection as well as equal opportunities (as Sweden has done).• Instructs its President to forward the Resolution to the Council, theCommissions, the governments and parliaments of the Member States, theCommittee of the Regions and the WHO.The full Report and result of final vote in Committee can be viewed at:
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