5G Moratorium Established in Italy - 14 Municipalities Approve Stop 5G Resolutions or Motions

The list of Italian Stop 5G administrations is growing in awareness of social and health risks. Some sixty regions, autonomous provinces and municipalities are questioning the darker aspects of 5G. As in Belgium (federal region of Brussels) and Switzerland (three cantons), a moratorium has also been established in Italy and 14 municipalities have already approved Stop 5G City Council resolutions or motions.

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Fifth Court in Italy Ruled Cell Phones Cause Cancer and Determined It Is An Occupational Disease

On 30 January, 2019, an Italian Court in the city of Monza, Italy ruled that the Acoustic Neuroma brain tumor of an airport employee was caused by exposure to the radiation from a cell phone he used for over 10 years for his work. The court determined that the tumor has permanently incapacitated him, and ruled it to be an occupational disease. PRESS HERE for the Court’s Decision.

This is the fourth case in which the courts in Italy determined that an Acoustic Neuroma type brain tumor was caused by a cell phone, and the fifth court to make such ruling as in the first case the court decision was appealed and later confirmed by Italy’s Supreme Court. A Summary of the four cases is in the bottom of this article. 

The importance of the decision is not only that it’s another Italian Court decision that establishes the link between brain tumors and exposure to Radio-Frequency/Microwave Radiation that is emitted from cell phones, but also by recognizing that if the exposure to electromagnetic radiation (EMR) was necessary for the purposes of work, the Acoustic Neuroma tumor may be considered an Occupational Disease.

Acoustic Neuroma, also known as Vestibular Schwannoma is a tumor which develops on the main nerve leading from the inner ear to the brain. This nerve influences balance and hearing, and pressure from an acoustic neuroma can cause hearing loss, ringing in the ear, and unsteadiness. Occasionally, it can interfere with brain functioning. It is a schwannoma type of cancer which means it develops on the Schwann cells covering the nerve.

It is important to mention that in the National Toxicology Program study of the US Federal government, the tumors that were found to be caused by exposure to cell phones’ radiation are schwannoma type cancers.

The Case

From 1994 to 2010, an airport employee was exposed at his work to high levels of Radio-Frequency and Microwave radiation from a variety of antennas and high-frequency equipment: altitude signal repeaters, weather radars, satellite antennas, and airplane equipment.

In addition, for the purpose of the coordination of tasks which were part of his job in the office, he had to use a lot of Electromagnetic frequencies and radiation emitting devices such as mobile phones, two PCs that were always on, and signal repeaters (GSM and DECT).

Several times the employee and his colleagues reported to the employer that the levels of electromagnetic fields (EMFs) and radiation were high and requested that the EMFs and radiation be measured, but they were ignored.

The employee used a Siemens DECT phone, a Nokia and later a Samsung cell phone for more than four hours a day, with phone sessions of up to 45 minutes consecutively and on the left side of his head. In 2010, he was diagnosed with an acoustic neuroma.

In 2011, the employee was declared to be permanently unfit for work and his disability was determined to be 68%. In 2014, he applied to INAIL (the Italian Center for Occupational Diseases) asking that his tumor be recognized as an Occupational Disease. The employee claimed that there is a casual link between his exposure to radiation in his work and the acoustic neuroma cancer he suffered, and hence his disease should be recognized as an occupational disease.

The CTU, a collaboration of experts and technical advisers assigned to evaluate the case, conducted research into the disease and its risk factors. In reducing the criteria for the causal link assessment, the CTU stated that the worker had been exposed to high-frequency EMR for a considerable number of hours per day for over 10 years.

The CTU concluded that the development of the left auditory nerve neuroma is related to his work. They based their determination on the duration of exposure, the type of devices he used, the type of pathology, and the review of the literature. They determined that the evidence is sufficient for a causal link, even in the absence of clear conclusive scientific evidence.

The CTU also refereed to a similar decision by the Court of Brescia, in which several studies between 2005 and 2009 were quoted. In three of the studies that were quoted, the risk of Neuroma had increased considerably, while according to another study the risk was considered to be low but present.

The CTU concluded that the tumor caused a reduction in the employee’s psycho and physical integrity.

Summary of Previous Italian Court Decisions

First Decision: Brescia Court. December 10, 2009, affirmed by Italy’s Supreme Court on October 12, 2012

The Supreme Court of Italy has affirmed a ruling that granted worker’s compensation to a businessman who developed a tumor after using a cell phone for 12 years. Marcolini, a financial manager at an industrial plant in Brescia in northern Italy, used cell and cordless phones for five-to-six hours a day for 12 years. He was diagnosed as having a benign tumor on the trigeminal nerve, which controls facial muscles and sensations. The court ignored industry funded studies and declared them to be biased and preferred Prof. Lennart Hardel’s expert opinion.

Second Decision: Ivrea Court. March 30, 2017

The Court of Ivrea recognized a causal link between inappropriate use of a mobile phone and a brain tumor. Roberto Romeo, 57, used his mobile for three to four hours of each working day for 15 years. He was diagnosed in 2010. His Acoustic Nerve had to be removed.” A medical expert estimated the damage to Romeo at 23 per cent of his bodily function, prompting the judge to make a compensation award of 500 euros per month to be paid by INAIL, a national insurance program covering workplace accidents. Newsweek mistakenly reported this case as the first decision while it was already the second. 

Third Decision: Florence Court: April 2017

The court ordered Inail (National Institute for Accident Insurance at Work) to compensate a salesperson who developed Acoustic Neuroma. A worker used the phone for 2-3 hours a day for 10 years. The experts opinion was that there is a “high probability of connection between cell phone use and malignant tumors”. The Court of Florence recognized the connection between the use of the cell phone and the onset of an acute nerve disease.

Links:

PRESS HERE for the Italian Court’s Decision

PRESS HERE for the article in Italy that reported the decision.

PRESS HERE to read more about Acoustic Neuroma and the connection to exposure to wireless radiation on Dr. Joel Moskowitz’s website – SaferEMR.com

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Stop 5G, the mobilization has arrived in Parliament. And now it aims at Europe

And if in the aftermath of the first national Stop 5G meeting , promoted by the Italian Alliance Stop 5G, there are about fifty institutions in various capacities (between Regions, Provinces and Municipalities) in which critical issues arise through council questions or motions and 5G Stop resolutions already approved (Rome Capital City Hall XII, Florence, Viareggio, Rocca di Papa, Fresagrandinaria, Cinto Euganeo, Cervaro and Savignano Irpino), in Prato (Smart City) the mayor candidate Marilena Garnier (civic list) supported by 280 signatures of Tuscan citizens presented a complaint to the court asking the Public Prosecutor to investigate possible crimes, considering that the "proliferation of antennas and the increase of electromagnetic emissions, as already demonstrated by the studies carried out, will increase the number of patients electrosensitivity. ”  Hence the complaint:  "We feel obliged guinea pigs", there should be "controls and evaluation of health impacts on humans, animals and plants, even before the installation of Wi-Fi, bearing in mind that 5G will be added and will not replace the 3G and 4G ".

Recalling the adoption of independent judgments unrelated to the telephone industry, the parliamentarians have committed the Executive Board to "integrating the contracts to be signed and / or already stipulated with the industry awarded the new 5G bands with the inclusion of a clause for a compensation contribution for any damage caused to the health of the population," making it a spokesperson in the EU for the immediate cancellation, with a view to protecting public health from electromagnetic fields, of any reference to evaluations and / or opinions expressed "By the ICNIRP, and by promoting" the search for safer, less dangerous and alternative wireless technologies such as wiring and Li-Fi which, the latter not using radio frequencies but the spectrum of sunlight, have undoubted advantages and can exceed the critical points given by 5G ".

Not bad. This is the strongest political act undertaken so far. An Italy without electromagnetic tsunami is therefore possible. It can be done.

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ITALY: Stop 5G - An Italy without an electromagnetic tsunami is possible

ITALY: Stop 5G, the mobilization has arrived in Parliament. And now it aims at Europe, by Maurizio Martucci - Il Fatto Quotidiano, 23rd May 2019 (auto-translation)

While the fifth-generation digital revolution is in full swing, Fiorella Belpoggi has been on Report, Petroleum, TG3 Leonardo and Striscia la Notizia to denounce the dark side of 5G, avoiding the attacks of the deniers, and has flushed out the possible damage of invisible radio frequencies . Its not a candidacy like the others: its the most important study in the world on the non-thermal effects for the 2G and 3G bands. Now he aspires to the European Parliament : "The introduction without caution of 5G, despite the alarms, seems to have taught nothing to the governments with respect to the lessons of the past: it is only a question of political will, acting to guarantee public health would only be a matter of democracy ”.

The scientist runs in the North-East constituency with the Green Europe list and aims to defend public health . First of all: "Our independence was annoying . I have already paid in first person, I have already halved my salary on two occasions and I have evidence of attempts to block our activities. Or science and society find a way to dialogue with certain scientific and predictive data centered on precaution, or giving up making decisions that are dangerous for public health ”.

The first thing that promises once in Brussels will be a moratorium on 5G for all the countries of the European Union : "It takes 1 and a half million euros to do the preliminary research on the health and social effects of 5G - says Belpoggi - you want that in Europe can't you find these funds? And why fear a search that is in everyone's interest?" This is another reason why Italy stands up. 5G is not safe and without preliminary studies on the risks to humanity and the ecosystem.

And if in the aftermath of the first national Stop 5G meeting , promoted by the Italian Alliance Stop 5G, there are about fifty institutions in various capacities (between Regions, Provinces and Municipalities) in which critical issues arise through council questions or motions and 5G Stop resolutions already approved ( Rome Capital City Hall XII, Florence , Viareggio, Rocca di Papa, Fresagrandinaria, Cinto Euganeo, Cervaro and Savignano Irpino), in Prato (Smart City) the mayor candidate Marilena Garnier (civic list) supported by 280 signatures of Tuscan citizens presented a complaintat the court asking the Public Prosecutor to investigate possible crimes, considering that the "proliferation of antennas and the increase of electromagnetic emissions, as already demonstrated by the studies carried out, will increase the number of electrosensitivity patients ". Hence the complaint: "We feel obliged guinea pigs", there should be "controls and evaluation of health impacts on humans, animals and plants, even before the installation of Wi-Fi , bearing in mind that 5G will be added and will not replace the 3G and 4G ".

The 5G problem is now in the political debate. This can be understood also in Pescara , where as many as six candidates for mayors out of eight (only the center-right candidate and one on the civic list dissent) with the Abruzzo committee Stop 5G and the Pescara associations against the electrosmog have signed a pact of understanding finalized "to the evaluation of all the risks deriving from the introduction of 5G technology". The same happened in Bari (Smart City) with the mayoral candidate Sabino De Razza (civic list), formally committed by the Apulians to "stop the experimentation in the Municipality of Bari, working with the other Italian Municipalities for the total refusal until the scientific studies give certain answers".

It does not end here. Because the urge to mobilize has reached Montecitorio , where five deputies have filed a parliamentary motion that commits the government to a national moratorium on 5G. Presented by an unusual combination 5Stelle-Mixed Group ( Sara Cunial first co-signer with Silvia Benedetti , Gloria Vizzini , Veronica Giannone and Manfred Schullian ), in addition to focusing on the social and health dangers of the Internet of things, the motion highlights the opacity of the so-called International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection (Icnirp), a private body based inGermany is already at the center of repeated scandals for conflicts of interest, but is involved in the WHO opinion for the drafting of the "Guidelines on the protection of the world population from exposure to radio frequencies and microwaves".

Recalling the adoption of independent judgments unrelated to the telephone industry, the parliamentarians have committed the Executive Board to "integrating the contracts to be signed and / or already stipulated with the industry awarded the new 5G bands with the inclusion of a clause for a compensation contribution for any damage caused to the health of the population ", making it a spokesperson in the EU for the immediate cancellation , with a view to protecting public health from electromagnetic fields, of any reference to evaluations and / or opinions expressed "From the ICNIRP, and by promoting" the search for safer , less dangerous and alternative wireless technologies such as wiring and Li-Fi that, the latter not using radio frequencies but the spectrum of sunlight, have undoubted advantages and can overcome the criticalities given by 5G ".

Not bad. This is the strongest political act undertaken so far. An Italy without electromagnetic tsunami is therefore possible. It can be done.

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Italy - For 5G the emission limits must be uniform to those of the EU

In Italy the values for electromagnetic emissions from cellular networks are ten times lower than those established by Europe, and this, according to the association of TLC operators, could slow down the development of 5G. But a letter comes from the doctors to Di Maio

The threshold for electromagnetic emissions in Italy is likely to be penalized for the development of 5G : Asstel president Pietro Guindani emphasizes this during a chamber hearing. "In Europe - he said - the maximum power density is 10 watts per square meter, in Italy it is 0.1 watts per square meter: there is therefore a limit a hundred times more stringent".

"This represents a strong historical penalization which has led to the multiplication of the base radio stations and that in perspective for the 5G will entail further penalties" explained the president of Asstel in front of the Transport and Communications Commission.

Guindani then focused on aligning the conditions of use of frequencies in Italy to those in force in the EU, underlining how “all the scientific evidence available today, including medical evidence, argues in favor of the correctness of the thresholds recommended by the international organized scientific community in the ICNIRP (International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection), a Commission recognized by the World Health Organization and the European Union ”.

At the same time it is appropriate to continue, as done by the launch of mobile radio telephony in the 1990s, the deepening of studies and research on electromagnetism, which concerns all radio communication technologies and not just 5G. "To this end Asstel proposes - concluded Guindani - to accompany the necessary regulatory reforms with initiatives aimed at satisfying the needs of clear and exhaustive information coming from public opinion, through the establishment also in Italy of a Commission for monitoring research international scientific on electromagnetism and the launch of information campaigns on how to use mobile phones ".

The president of Asstel also stressed "the need for regulatory updates, starting with measures that allow maximum speed and efficiency in laying fiber cables and in the construction of 5G radio stations". In the same way, "the uniform application of national rules at the local level will be essential, and the provision, with the completion of the Sinfi (the cadastre of the Infrastructures above and below ground), of all the information useful for the planning and realization of the investments by part of the Operators "concluded Guindani.

On the other hand , we note today the position of the Italian Association of Physicians for the Environment ISDEM: “Nobody wants to hinder progress or technological evolution, but everything should be related to a correct balance between our real needs, possible risks and the profit needs of radiotelephony operators ». This was stated by the president of the scientific committee Agostino Di Ciaula, in an open letter addressed to Labor Minister Luigi Di Maio.

On the new 5G technology, "it would have been appropriate - says Di Ciaula - that the administration without the informed consent of 5G had been preceded by a concrete involvement of the bodies appointed to protect the environment and public health (Ministry of Health, National Institute of Health , Ministry of the Environment, ISPRA / ARPA), from the provision of adequate monitoring protocols, from a risk assessment that takes into adequate consideration the available scientific evidence, from a review in a more precautionary sense than the ineffective legislation in force and from the adoption of all the measures needed to reduce exposure, especially to the most vulnerable ”.

And again: "If 5G had been a drug (...) it would not even have passed the preclinical evaluation phase. Instead, thanks to the `experimentation` underway, 5G is already administered to at least 4 million Italians without prior authorization from any ethics committee, without informed consent, without prior assessment of the risks and without - concludes - adequate environmental and health monitoring".

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Italy - Health risks arising from mobile phone misuse: government ordered to launch information campaign

The debate regarding the health risks connected to the incorrect use of mobile phones has recently been rekindled in Italy. With a 15 January 2019 decision, the Lazio Regional Administrative Court (TAR Lazio) ordered the Ministry of Environment, the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Education, Universities and Research to launch an information campaign to advise the public about the potential health and environmental risks arising from the misuse of mobile and cordless phones.

Facts

The ministries had been sued before the TAR Lazio by the Association for the Prevention of and Fight Against Electrosmog (APPLE), established to promote the protection of health and the environment from exposure to electromagnetic fields.

APPLE's action was grounded on Law 36/2001 on the protection from exposure to electric, magnetic and electromagnetic fields. In particular, the claimant referred to Article 10 of the law, according to which the ministries should have promoted information and environmental education campaigns. APPLE's action highlighted the ministries' unjustified inactivity in this regard.

In order to support its claim and highlight the urgent need of the above information and environmental education campaigns, APPLE filed a number of scientific studies showing that the misuse of mobile and cordless phones could have harmful effects on human health due to exposure to electromagnetic fields, especially for children whose psychophysical development may be negatively affected.

Decision

The TAR Lazio's decision acknowledged the existence of a note issued by the Ministry of Health in 2012 in response to a previous request submitted by APPLE, whereby the latter was informed that an information campaign was being prepared. In particular, the ministry specified that:

• the issue concerning possible health risks arising from the use of mobile phones was already under review, particularly following the International Agency for Cancer Research's classification of electromagnetic fields as being possibly carcinogenic to humans (category 2B); and
• in 2011 the Higher Health Council recommended that an information campaign be conducted to promote the safe and responsible use of mobile phones, especially for children who are exposed to such devices at an increasingly early age, maintaining that the hypothesis of a causal relationship cannot be completely excluded in relation to the frequent use of mobile phones and cancer, despite no scientific certainty in this regard.

As the information campaign announced in 2011 had yet to be implemented, TAR Lazio ordered the government to launch such a campaign within six months from the service of the decision in order to advise the public about:

• the correct use of mobile and cordless phones; and
• the potential health and environmental risks arising from the misuse of such devices.

Comment

The TAR Lazio's decision, which received considerable media coverage, will most likely renew the debate about electromagnetic pollution and mobile phones.

Indeed, Italian courts have already faced the issue of the possible existence of a causal link between mobile phone use and cancer. In 2017 the Court of Ivrea and the Court of Florence recognised the damage caused by the extensive work-related use of mobile phones and ordered the national insurance provider (INAIL) to compensate the affected workers with a lifelong payment.

The courts were following in the footsteps of the Italian Supreme Court, which in a 2012 landmark case brought by a worker against INAIL, had ruled that a causal link exists between mobile phone use and cancer, holding that the benign tumour that the plaintiff had developed on the left side of his face (allegedly due to the use of a mobile phone for approximately five to six hours a day) entitled him to 80% of a disability pension.

In light of the information campaign that looks set to be launched in the next six months, mobile and cordless phone manufacturers should carefully review, as a precautionary measure, product information and warnings that they provide to consumers.

For further information on this topic please contact Christian di Mauro at Hogan Lovells Studio Legale by telephone (+39 02 7202 521) or email (christian.dimauro@hoganlovells.com). The Hogan Lovells Studio Legale website can be accessed at www.hoganlovells.com.

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Florence Italy will use the precautionary principle for the rollout of 5G

It is written that as the highest local health authority, Mayor Dario Nardella is officially committed “to elaborate an overall plan, in agreement with the competent authorities, for the installations of the 5G technology before issuing individual authorizations in view of the application of the Precautionary Principle and public health”, “carefully evaluating any authorization for 5G installations in the territory of the municipality of Florence”.

Florence, after the Stop5G vote expressed by the XII Municipality of Roma, is therefore the first city in Italy to have formally approved the concerns of the political-institutional world on the dangers originated from the fifth generation wireless, recalled in the motion the ambiguity and the ‘uncertainty of supranational and private organizations (such as ICNIRP) that “have very different positions from each other, despite the huge evidence of published studies”, considering that “it would now be established that 5G causes damage to the human body, such as DNA strand breaks”, as the extensive independent biomedical literature produced by the authoritative American biochemist Martin Pall has evaluated.

See news in Italian here.

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Italy to Launch Cell Phone Radiation Awareness Campaign

Italian Court Orders Government to Launch Cell Phone Radiation Awareness Campaign  

An Italian court has ordered the government to launch a campaign to advise the public of the health risks from mobile and cordless phones to begin by July 16. A citizens group called APPLE(Association for the Prevention of and Fight Against Electrosmog)  sued to force the government to act. A joint press release between the Ministry of the Environment, Education and Health on the decision states the three ministries “welcome the judicial decision, convinced of the need to raise awareness on the issue and to promote prevention measures.”  

In a breaking news report from Microwave News on the decision,  Stefano Bertone who is helping represent APPLE, stated, “This case has important implications not only in Italy, but worldwide. At the moment, health and safety information is contained —or, I should say, buried— in cell phone manuals. This is not good enough. If it was, the court would have agreed with the government that sufficient information is already available.”

The New York Times AP reported the story in “Court orders Italian govt to publicize cellphone risks”and also cited a 2017 Italian court of Ivrea ruling that long-term use of a company-issued cell phone caused Telecom employee, Roberto Romeo’s non-cancerous brain tumor. In 2012 the Italian Supreme Court ruled that the National Institute for Workmen’s Compensation  must compensate Innocente Marcolini, a 60-year-old retired businessman for his  tumor due to long term cell phone use.  

Over twenty countries have explicit health advice to the public to lower cell phone radiation exposure. France has issued several campaigns over the years educating their public on safer ways to use technology.

Resources

• The Regional Administrative Court for Lazio decision
• Joint press release between the Ministry of the Environment, Education and Health on the decision, January 16, 2019

News coverage on the court decision 

• Local news coverage from La Repubblica 
• Corriere della Sera news coverage  
• AP Daily Journal Court orders Italian govt to publicize cellphone risks
• APPLE’s press release
• New York Times  “Court orders Italian govt to publicize cellphone risks

More about policy and action in Italy below. 

This information is found on our database on international protective EMF policy. 

2018: The City Council of Bologna unanimously approved an initiative to inform the public about the health risks of cell phone and wireless radiation in light of the NTP and Ramazzini Institute studies.  According to news reports the action calls for the Council to: 

• Inform the public about the health risks of cell phone and wireless radiation
• Invite mayor Virginio Merola and the junta “to take action, including with the Emilia-Romagna Region, with the Ausl and the competent institutions, through appropriate communication channels, to launch a public information campaign, so that the population citizen is aware of the risks involved in using mobile phones inappropriately. “
• Proposes to the mayor “to request a commitment in this sense also to telephone companies”.

• Read June 26, 2018 News Report  bologna.repubblica.it “The telephone companies inform about the risks of the mobile phone”: the appeal from Bologna”

2018: The Ramazzini Institute of Bologna has developed materials to share to high school students on how to reduce exposure to cell phone radiation. Click here to download PDF. 

2017 Decree of the Environment Minister has recommendations on reducing EMF. 

Section 2.3.5.4 of the Decree recommends reducing exposure to indoor electromagnetic pollution

• Reduce low frequency magnetic fields: “In order to reduce as far as possible the indoor exposure to low frequency magnetic fields (ELFs) induced by electrical panels, uprights, conductor dorsals, etc.” the design of the plants must provide that meters and electric panels are  outside the building and take measures to reduce levels. 
• Reduce Radio frequency radiation: Reduce as much as possible the indoor exposure to high-frequency magnetic fields (RF)  equip with alternative data transfer systems to wi-fi, eg. cable connection or Powerline communication (PLC) technology.  
• This was started by a Communication by ECC (COM(2003) 302),   to European Parliament  about: Integrated Product Policy: Develop the concept of “environmental lifecycle.
• Read the 2017 Decree of the Environment Minister page 20-21. 

News on the Directive: “Replace The WiFi Dangerous With Safer Wiring: It Is Law But No One Knows!” Di Maurizio Martucci, July 11, 2017

Italian Decree of 8 July 2003 (electric and magnetic fields of power lines): Intervention level 10 microteslas (µT) for existing installations at playgrounds, flats, schools and areas where people stay 4 hours per day or more. Quality objective = 3 microteslas (µT) for new lines and for plannings. There are more stringent guidelines in three regions: 0,2 microteslas (µT)

Occupational Safety Database: National database of emission levels of equipment funded by Ministry of Health, regarding occupational exposure to physical agents including EMF  www.portaleagentifisici.it

The site is managed and upgraded by INAIL, in cooperation with Tuscany regional authority, and local occupational safety and prevention Departments of Siena and Modena cities. The development of the web site is absolutely relevant in the frame of public information activities, specifically designed for occupational safety.

2017: The Italian Court of Ivrea ruling recognizes causal link between cellphone use and brain tumor. 

• Italian court is the first in the world to recognize this causal link in an April 11, 2017 ruling which awarded a Telecom employee, Roberto Romeo, lifetime damages of 500 euros a month after he developed a brain tumor from fifteen years of cellphone use. 
• Original Ruling 
• Press Release EHT 
• The Guardian News Article: “Italian court rules mobile phone use caused brain tumour”
• NY Daily News Article: “Italian Court Finds Link Between Cell Phone Use and Tumor”
• Courthouse News Service Article: “Italian Court Finds Link Between Cell Phone Use and Tumor”

2016: Mayor of Borgofranco d’Ivrea ordered Wi-Fi to be turned off in schools. “Mayor Livio Tola told the town’s high school and elementary school to return to using cables to connect to the internet after reading that the electromagnetic waves given off by wireless routers were especially harmful to young children.” 

• The Local News Article: “Italian town shuts down wifi over health fears.” 
• Torino News Article: “Ivrea, The Mayor Removes WiFi as it Could Be Dangerous”.  

2015: State Parliament of South Tyrol voted to confirm the precautionary principle: The State Government was mandated: 

• To replace existing wireless networks whenever possible with networks that emit less radiation at schools, preschools, hospitals, nursing homes, and other public facilities. 

• Establish a working group whose mandate it is to assess these new technologies and their exposure levels. With regard to wireless communication technologies, mobile Internet access, and public health, the working group shall clarify which technologies emit less radiation and provide sustainable technology options and 
• To start an education and awareness campaign that informs about possible health risks, especially regarding the unborn, infants, children, and adolescents and that develops guidelines for a safer use of cell phones, smartphones, and Wi-Fi. 
• Previous Hearing at the Parliament of South Tyrol, 29 April 2015 – “hearing on the effects of mobile radio”
• Discussion at the Plenary Session: “Mobile Communications, Refugees”
• Kompetenzinitiative News Article: “Parliament of South Tyrol Reconfirms Precautionary Principle” 
• Official Resolution – “WLAN, mobile radio, radiation exposure: does the precautionary principle apply”

2012 Italian Supreme Court Ruling:  Man’s brain tumor was caused by his cell phone use. 

• The National Institute for Workmen’s Compensation must compensate a worker with head tumor due to cell use. 
• Reuters News Article – “Italy court ruling links mobile phone use to tumor”
• RT News Article – “Cancer cells: Italian court rules ‘mobile phones can cause brain tumors’”
• Daily Mail News Article – Mobile phones CAN cause brain tumours, court rules in landmark case.

Lecce, Italy, “Istituto Comprensivo Alighieri- Diaz” School banned wifi: Their two resolutions decided:

• To ban wifi in school and install a wired system for the use of internet and reject the request of the local government (Municipality) to install an antenna on the school roof for the wireless signal providing for the “Wireless city” program. 
• The resolution also asks the Municipality to install the antenna at a reasonable distance from school.

The Piemonte Region Council adopted a resolution to limit EMF exposure by limiting the use of wifi in schools and be considerate to the problem of EHS people. 

• Original Resolution – “Adoption of the Precautionary Principle exposition Installations in Wireless Environments in School” 

The Italian Society for Preventive and Social Pediatrics has officially called to prohibit cell phones for children under 10 years old.

• Giuseppe Di Mauro, president of the Italian Society of social and preventive pediatrics [Società italiana di pediatria preventiva e sociale (www.sipps.it)] “We do not know all the consequences associated with cell phone use, but excessive use could can lead to  concentration and memory loss, increase in aggressiveness and sleep disturbances.” and he cites electromagnetic fields stating“The damage to health are increasingly evident”  
• Il Tirreno Tuscany News Article – “Pediatricians: Phone Alarm for Kids” 

2016 – Turin Mayor Chiara Appendino laid out plans “to cut back on Wi-Fi in state schools and government buildings over concerns that radiation might damage people’s health”. 

• The Local News Report “Turin could slash Wi-Fi over ‘radiation’ concerns”

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