Nothing says that this amendment will be adopted

This is an amendment which could even dramatize the debate on the harmfulness of mobile phone waves. Last week, the commission on sustainable development of the National Assembly, to develop the environmental Grenelle II law, included in the text two proposals of the UMP MP of the Meuse, Bertrand Pancher. They are intended to strengthen the display on the exhibition the wave antennas and phones themselves. The parliamentary discussion will undertake in May. Nothing says that this amendment will be adopted. However, the very idea of wanting to vote these measures made debate: "what is serious, said a manufacturer of mobile, it is to make a law that will feed the spectrum of public danger." In fact, the Act is repeated provisions that already exist. It comes to compel the Nokia, Samsung, Apple, and other Sony-Ericsson to mention the power of their phones "legibly and in French". Following the publication of a ministerial order in 2003, they already do in the records provided with their mobile, as well as on their website. Operators or distributors do the same. But who reads the manuals And who can understand what means this bizarre indicator, the "specific absorption rate", which measures a power in watts per kilogram

It would certainly be interesting for parents to know that because of a lower body weight, children suffer more rapidly than adult heating due to the waves - judge their harmfulness is a scientific debate not decided. Only focus on this indicator is risky: "the real problem, it's the life of the mobile," says Stéphane Dubreuil, SIA Board. Stéphen Kerckhove, of the association Act for the environment, will have to carry out information campaigns in the long course, because "once the carton of discarded packaging, the message has disappeared". He cited as an example the billboards funded by the City Hall of Lyon year last to encourage teenagers to not remain clinging to their phone.

Exposure to antenna

But MEPs also want to display exposure to waves of mobile base-station antennas. The national agency of frequencies (ANF) should identify within three years "atypical point of the territory" - there where "exposures exceed significantly the average national." Act for environment already noted the "hot spots" on its site, through the measures of the ANF. In principle, Stéphen Kerckhove is satisfied but qualifies: "Check that it is not a delaying strategy." And above all, treat these hot spots!

It is the great debate of recent months: should we reduce the power of the antenna Wave operational of the round table Committee must conduct experiments in this direction in 16 cities, but the pilots planned for 2009 were not yet launched. The Mayor of Paris, Bertrand Delanoë, has him, said ready to allow the deployment in the capital of "pico-antennae" many but not powerful. Associations applaud. But for Stéphane Dubreuil, runs to the disaster: "He will have 15,000 antennas instead of 2.263 to equip Paris." They will not be on the roof but facade. Not only they will deface the haussmanniens buildings and represent a danger they will be fair to your window, but, in addition, this could cost 1,000 to 2,000 euros per Parisien! "A beautiful rat race in perspective.