Governments should ban all mobile phones and WiFi or WLAN systems from schools, according to a Parliamentary Assembly committee.
The advice, contained in a 6 May report on the potential dangers of electromagnetic fields and their effect on the environment, says the measure is “advocated by some regional authorities, medical associations and civil society organisations” as part of a child health protection strategy.
Governments are also urged to “set preventive thresholds for levels of long-term exposure to microwaves in all indoor areas, in accordance with the precautionary principle, not exceeding 0.6 volts per metre, and in the medium term to reduce it to 0.2 volts per metre.”
They should also “introduce town planning measures to keep high-voltage power lines and other electric installations at a safe distance from dwellings.”
The Committee on the Environment, Agriculture and Local and Regional Affairs report will be discussed and voted on at a 27 May Parliamentary Assembly meeting in Kyiv. It is also scheduled to be debated at the assembly’s full session next month.
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