ELECTROMAGNETISM
October 1st, 2003
BY KEITH NUTHALLTHE EUROPEAN Union (EU) has a reputation for tortoise-like progress in the approval of its legislation, and maybe - given its proposals have to satisfy an overwhelming majority of its 15 member countries and European parliamentarians of all political hues - that is no great surprise.However, the 11 years that the EU's Council of Ministers took to agree limit values on the maximum electromagnetic exposure that workers may be subject to, is something out of the ordinary, even in Brussels. The reason for such a time-lag in approving such an important ...
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