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euro-myths - did you believe 'em
STATEMENT
A Commission Directive will oblige fishermen to wear hair-nets when
aboard their fishing boats.
RESPONSE
No foundation. There is a Council Directive, which came into effect
in 1993, aimed at ensuring strict hygiene conditions are met in
fish-processing plants and by all staff who process and package fish.
The directive does not apply to fishermen aboard their fishing boats,
with the exception of workers aboard factory-vessels, where
processing and packaging of fish are carried out at sea. Suitable
hair as hygiene requires does not mean wearing a hairnets.
STATEMENT
Youngsters will be forced to give up their paper-rounds, if the EC
Draft Directive on the Protection of young people at work is adopted.
RESPONSE
Young people in full-time education restricted to 15 hours per week,
outside school hours and not between midnight and 4 a.m. Plenty of
time to get the papers out.
STATEMENT
The European Community is wasting money funding research into the
smell of British workers and quantifying it in units of 'olf' emitted
by a 'standard European person'.
RESPONSE
The UK Building Research Establishment is carrying out work on
buildings which does involve smell. The research was funded by the
Department of the Environment, and iit covered healthy and unhealthy
buildings, indoor air pollution and office ventilation. The
researchers had some contact with the Commission regarding
alternative energy technology.
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