The associations Agir pour l’environnement and Priartém were relatively satisfied on reading the summary of the round table of the Grenelle des waves. This is no longer the case after the presentation of the 10 orientations adopted by the government. “From the Grenelle des Ondes, we expected a lot… Perhaps too much! We had, in any case, the bad surprise to find, after having participated fully and entirely in the Grenelle des Ondes, that the Minister of Health had simply forgotten to ‘Listening to stakeholders,’ they said in a joint statement.
According to this synthesis, remind the associations, “the marketing as well as the promotion of laptops explicitly intended for children should be banned”. Regarding the exposure thresholds of residents to electromagnetic waves, “was mentioned the application of the ALARA principle which wants the exposure to be as low as possible and which implies the setting of a regulatory value”.
However, today, the ban on the sale of laptops to under 12s is over. It is only a question of banning the use of cellphones in primary schools. The lowering of exposure thresholds is not on the agenda. “To date, international expertise is converging on the issue of antennas and concludes that in the current state of scientific knowledge, and given the low levels of exposure around these installations in comparison in particular with those of mobile phones , the hypothesis of a risk to health for populations living near mobile telephone masts cannot be accepted, ”the government mentions.
Photo caption: Stéphen Kerckhove, General Delegate of Agir pour l’Environnement.
