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Clive Sidney

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  1. As I said, it is just a rumour! Clive.
  2. As far as I am aware, there are two issues here - 1 - the directive (RoHS - Risk of Hazardous Substances) controlling the use of lead in consumer electrical items (and yes, the organ is a CONSUMER item as far as the DTI are concerned) - this is for health reasons, but as stated in an article by Richard Morrison in the Times "No one has ever been poisoned" by an organ. 2 - the directive (WEEE - Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment) stating what percentage of lead can be used in new consumer items - this is to minimise landfill problems for the future. Obviously as most organs last in excess of one hundred years, and even when scrapped the pipes or the pipe-metal is reused, this directive is rather silly when applied to pipes in organs. At the moment is seems that the great beaurocracy "mis-information" machine is at full speed, with the DTI giving one viewpoint (and apparently being immobile on this viewpoint), the EU Commission as a body giving another viewpoint, and Commissioner Wallström, Vice-President of the EU stating that neither of the directives apply to organs. As for our fellow organ-lovers on the continent, the rumour is that the German "DTI" has exempted German organs from the directives, and from organ-building friends in Italy it seems that the Italians are doing nothing at all about it and will be ignoring it! If any readers know the episode from Yes Minister "The Devil you Know", it contains a good description (this is without being rude to any European organ-lovers reading this) of Mr Hacker's view about EU officials from each country. Perhaps this applies in the case of these two directives... See http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080306/quotes - the second quote. Clive.
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