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SITA tell me that there is a meeting of the HSE, SITA, Diving Agencies (BSAC, SAA, PADI, TDI, etc), major manufacturers, etc in the next few weeks.
HSE's position is that if this is an EC Standard and was adopted as a British Standard then they would have no choice but to implement it even if they didn't agree with it. They voted against it at the preliminary stage but were outvoted.
The best result is that if all the relevant UK parties tell the HSE that the standard is unworkable and cannot be implemented. HSE could then go back to the CEN committee and request a change.
So the best thing we can do is to lobby the Agencies and manufacturers to declare that it is unworkable. I believe that BSAC and SAA agree with this position, I don't know about PADI. It also seems that Poseiden are taking the same view. Again I'm not sure about the other manufacturers. |