COST 281 Reports and Statements

• Recommendation on an Internationally Co-ordinated Research on Genotoxic Effects of Electromagnetic Radiation from Mobile Communication Systems
  March 11th, 2004
  The Management Committee has decided at the COST 281 workshop in Budapest the
  "Recommendation on an Internationally Co-ordinated Research on Genotoxic Effects of Electromagnetic Radiation from Mobile Communication Systems"
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• Watchdog-Report 2003
  March 5th, 2004
  The latest annual report 2003 gives a comprehensive overview to decision makers and the public on the progress in the field of potential health implications from EMF made during the past year.
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• COST 281 STM ''Base Station Monitoring''
  There are new reports of the short term mission of COST 281, which took place in Vienna in August 26th to 27th, 2003.
  All documents are available at the documents section.
  

• Watchdog-Report 2002
  09.12.2002
  This watchdog report is the first of a series of annual reports intended to give a comprehensive overview to decision makers and the public on the progress in the field of potential health implications from mobile communication systems made during the past year.
  PDF
  New! 03.02.2003
  The answer to CENELEC´s disagreement with COST 281 Watchdog statement ist available here
  

• Scientific Comment on Epidemiologic Studies on the Health Impact of Mobile Communcation Basestations
  09.12.2002
  This comment is the response of COST 281 to a joint request by the Swiss Federal Office of Public Health and the Swiss Research Co-operation Sustainable Mobile Communication asking for “an assessment of the chances and risks of epidemiological research on mobile phone basestations and human health and the best practice in this field”.
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• Electromagnetic Fields and Human Health - Joint Letter from ICNIRP, EBEA and COST 281action to the European Parliament PDF

• Scientific comment on Individual Statements of Concern About Health Hazards of Weak EMF (DOC|PDF)
  In response to a request by the Irish Department of Public Enterprise, to comment on a submission prepared by Dr. G. Hyland for the European Parliament the COST action 281 on "Potential Health Implications from Mobile Communication Systems" has prepared this discussion paper in order to provide a balanced scientific view of the debate.

  In February 2002 Dr. G. Hyland responded to the COST 281 comment with the following paper: (DOC|PDF)
  
  The original Hyland Paper is available at the websites of the European Parliament (PDF)

• Mobile telecommunications base stations - exposure to electromagnetic fields. Report of a short term mission within COST 244bis (DOC|PDF)