The  STOA Panel is organising this virtual workshop. The workshop will be structured around three main questions, which the panellists have been asked to address:

Q1. Is the 2020 International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection (ICNIRP) risk assessment of the health and environmental effects of electromagnetic fields, sufficiently robust and reliable for protective policymaking?

Q2. Are the ICNIRP recommended exposure limits for electromagnetic fields, which are based mainly on short term tissue heating effects, sufficiently protective to avoid harm from lower level, longer term exposures that are below the ICNIRP limits.

Q3. Is there enough independent research into the health and environmental effects of 5G, which would help to reassure the public and help minimise future liabilities?

PROGRAMME

10:00-10:05 – WELCOME AND INTRODUCTION

• – Michèle Rivasi, MEP and STOA Panel Member
• – Ivo Hristov, MEP and STOA Panel Member

10:05-11:05 – HEALTH IMPACT OF 5G

• – Fiorella Belpoggi, Ramazzini Institute, Bologna, Italy
• – Elisabeth Cardis, Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal), Spain
• – Rodney Croft, International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection (ICNIRP)
• – Franz Karcher, DG Sante, European Commission

EHT Note: Click here to read questions send to Rodney Croft that he stated he did not have time to answer and directed EHT Executive Director to send  the questions to ICNIRP. Perhaps these questions can be answered in the presentation.

11:05-11:35 – ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT OF 5G

• – Arno Thielens, Ghent University – imec, Ghent, Belgium
• – Gerard Ledoigt, Clermont Université, Clermont-Ferrand, France

11:35-12:00 – Q&A FROM THE AUDIENCE AND CLOSING REMARKS

• – Q&A from the audience
• – Ivo Hristov, MEP and STOA Panel Member
• – Michèle Rivasi, MEP and STOA Panel Member

Moderator: David Gee, Institute of Environment, Health, and Societies, Brunel University, London, UK

The information on how to join and follow the event will be available closer to the event date.