Press Release: Commission to postpone and amend electromagnetic fields legislation to protect MRI

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Series Details IP/07/1610 (26.10.07)
Publication Date 26/10/2007
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The European Commission has proposed to postpone for four years – until 30 April 2012 – the deadline for introducing legislation on workers' exposure to electromagnetic fields, which could have affected the use of technologies such as Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI). This will allow enough time to prepare a substantive amendment to the Directive in order to take account of recent research findings on the possible impact of the exposure limits on MRI.

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