The National Assembly has adopted a bill that bans wi-fi in nurseries and nurseries, to protect young children from the potential effects of electromagnetic waves.
Free wi-fi daycare! This is what a Law proposition which has just been definitively adopted by the National Assembly on Thursday 29 February after a two-year parliamentary marathon. The text prohibits the installation of fixed terminal equipment equipped with wireless Internet access in areas dedicated to the reception, rest and activities of children under three years of age. Crèches and day care centers are therefore concerned, but only in areas where children live, and not in the administrative parts of these establishments, for example.
Young vulnerable children
” Everyone will understand that, taking into account their particular sensitivity to electromagnetic fields, young children must be kept away from the source of emission, especially since, by virtue of their size, they are likely to have their heads particularly close to them. a box “, had justified in her report, the deputy ecologist Laurence Abeille, main author of this bill relating to” sobriety, transparency, information and consultation in matters of exposure to electromagnetic waves ” .
“While it is accepted by the scientific community that the penetration of electromagnetic radiation into the brain is much greater in childhood than in adulthood, as a consequence of the smaller size of the skull, but also of greater permeability of the child’s head, these provisions seem to make good sense, ”she added.
Few waves but continuous
During the first parliamentary discussions on the text, the MP recognized that wi-fi emits little electromagnetic radiation, but continuously. The PS deputy for Isère, François Brottes, for his part, stressed that he had not waited for this bill to take such a measure in his town (Crolles).
The bill also requires that, in primary school classrooms, wi-fi be disabled when not in use for digital educational activities. Either a little ” like you turn off the light before leaving a room, ”explained Laurence Abeille.
The Priartem association criticizes “the blows of the plane” suffered by the bill during these two years. But she welcomes the text as a “first step in the recognition by law of the need to regulate the development of mobile telephony and all wireless applications”.
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