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News Archive 2004

02/05/2004
Breakthrough in barmy EU ruling
Wales on Sunday

THE Tory leader in the European Parliament yesterday welcomed a breakthrough over barmy new EC rules which could have meant putting signs on Snowdon to warn climbers they're 'high up'.

The new 'working at height' laws are meant to regulate safety in industries such as construction.
Jonathan Evans, a Welsh MEP, said the breakthrough came after talks in Brussels between senior Health & Safety Executive officials and mountaineering representatives.

He said: "The Government had argued that the rules and regulations must be enforced, the effect of which would have been to require signs on the peak of Snowdon warning mountaineering instructors that they were working at height.

"Everyone agreed that this would be madness, but that's what the rules literally require."

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