OPTICAL RADIATION
September 1st, 2005
BY KEITH NUTHALLTHE EUROPEAN Parliament has voted to exclude natural sunlight from a new European Union (EU) optical radiation health and safety directive issue to be regulated by national governments. In a plenary session, the parliament supported centre-right amendments restricting the legislation to artificial sources of radiation by 397 votes for, 269 against. MEPs accepted the arguments of EU business federations that the exposure of outdoor workers to the sun in Finland was totally different to that in Greece, undermining the need for an EU directive. The ...
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