asked the Minister for Posts and Telegraphs the attitude he proposes to take on the EEC draft directive sent to the Council of Ministers regarding the suppression of radio-electrical interference produced by television sets.
Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Radio-Electrical Interference.
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The interference limits proposed in the draft EEC directive on receiver radiation are generally acceptable. Reservations on one or two points have been communicated to the EEC Commission.
Is the Minister aware that people who can only afford a transistor radio and who happen to live one or two doors away from somebody with television find their radios are interfered with as a result of the television in the nearby house?
The draft directive is designed to control the level of interference caused by radio and television receivers to other receivers and other radio services—it is, of course, agreed that such interference does exist—and is also designed to harmonise the legislative and administrative positions in EEC countries relating to interference caused by these receivers by fixing the maximum permissible upper limit to interference, thereby facilitating the free movement of these goods within the Community. Both aims of the draft directive are obviously desirable. In fact, my advisory committee on interference with wireless telegraphy have been considering the problems caused by interference of the type described by the Deputy before the receipt of the draft directive and they have almost completed their examination.
The Minister intends to do something about it, I presume?
I will act on the advice I receive from my advisers.