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FORGET for a moment compulsory ta graphs and unrealistic hours of work; Em has other nasties to offer.
Draft Directive R/2203/76, dealing t he classification, packaging and labellin dangerous substances, for instance.
Among those who do not like it members of the House of Lords In fact w t hey discussed it last week, Peers were ping mad. Take Lord Wall, who had been charge of a committee examining the Di tive. It was obviously more in pain than at that he observed that it was regrettable — say the least" — that documents like should be issued by Brussels.
For, as he pointed out, not only did it w the time of Ministers, officials. Parliament industry, but it also gave a disturbing pie of the bureaucracy in Brussels.
As a good Scot, Lord Lyell was not a happy at a suggestion that St. Andrew's C should be the sign for "harmful", bu reserved his real attack for the variation
warning labels "misleading and t blesome."
He drew a picture of large articul vehicles overturned or leaking their lo and the rescue, fire Or salvage services ha to consult an EEC blue, green, red or b book to find the symbol saying which di erous substance was involved, and 1, remedy was needed to clean up the roa eliminate the dangers to humans, animal plants.
So, keep the signs simple?
Not good enough if Baroness Seaar h right. She reported that research sugge that only 24 per cent of people got message at all from a skull and crossbo Pirate operator S please note.
What really annoyed her, however, wa "absurdity" of symbols different from t used by the United Nations. It annoyed Vaizey even more, for the symbols wer said, not only different, but exactly oppos
Government Whip Lord Wallace of lany sympathised, but believed that a than perfect sign was better than no sig all. The two sets of symbols were differ but not greatly different. Both had iden pictograms representing exploding bot flames, skull and crossbones and so forth.
All is not yet lost, however — negotiat are still going on. So, you Brus bureaucrats, pay attention to the W minster signs, or you may find yourse bombarded with pictograms of bombs flames from a House of Lords flying the s and crossbones.