§ Mrs. Bainasked the Secretary of State for Employment if he will publish in the 544W Official Report the list of appropriate regulations pertaining in the EEC in terms of the handling and use of asbestos; and if he will indicate where these differ in their provisions from the 1969 regulations pertaining to that situation in Great Britain.
§ Mr. Harold WalkerThe European Economic Commission has not promulgated any regulations or directives pertaining to asbestos. I am informed by the Chairman of the Health and Safety Commission, however, that Denmark, the Republic of Ireland and the Netherlands have adopted the same hygiene standards for asbestos as the United Kingdom. Hygiene standards, where they exist, in other EEC countries are not strictly comparable with United Kingdom standards, but no member State is known to have a more stringent hygiene standard for asbestos than the United Kingdom.