Salzburg Resolution on Mobile Telecommunication Base Stations

International Conference on Cell Tower Siting
Linking Science & Public Health
Salzburg, June 7-8, 2000

1. It is recommended that development rights for the erection and for operation of a base station should be subject to a permission procedure. The protocol should include the following aspects:
· Information ahead and active involvement of the local public
· Inspection of alternative locations for the siting
· Protection of health and wellbeing
· Considerations on conservation of land- and townscape
· Computation and measurement of exposure
· Considerations on existing sources of HF-EMF exposure
· Inspection and monitoring after installation.

2. It is recommended that a national database be set up on a governmental level giving details of all base stations and their emissions.

3. It is recommended for existing and new base stations to exploit all technical possibilities to ensure exposure is as low as achievable (ALATA-principle) and that new base stations are planned to guarantee that the exposure at places where people spend longer periods of time is as low as possible, but within the strict public health guidelines.

4. Presently the assessment of biological effects of exposures from base stations in the low-dose range is difficult but indispensable for protection of public health.
There is at present evidence of no threshold for adverse health effects.
Recommendations of specific exposure limits are prone to considerable uncertainties and should be considered preliminary. For the total of all highfrequency irradiation a limit value of 100 mW/m² (10 µW/cm²) is recommended.
For preventive public health protection a preliminary guideline level for the sum total of exposures from all ELF pulse modulated high-frequency facilities such as GSM base stations of 1 mW/m² (0.1 µW/cm²) is recommended.

Disclaimer: The Resolution represents the personal opinion of the undersigning scientist and public health specialist and not that of the organization they are affiliated to.

Dr. Ekkehardt Altpeter Inst. for Social- and Preventive Medicine, University of Bern
Bern, Switzerland

Dr. Carl Blackman US Environmental Protection Agency Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, USA

Dr. Neil Cherry Lincoln University Christchurch Christchurch, New Zealand

Prof. Dr. Huai Chiang Zhejiang University School of Medicine Microwave Lab
Hangzhou, China

Dr. Bill P. Curry EMSciTek Consulting Co. Glen Ellyn, Illinois, USA

Prof. Dr. Livio Giuliani1 National Institute of Occupational Safety and Prevention (ISPESL)
Rome, Italy

Prof. Dr. Yuri Grigoriev Centre of Electromagnetic Safety, Institute of Biophysics
Moscow, Russia

Dr. Helene Irvine Greater Glasgow Health Board, Dept. of Public Health
Glasgow, Scotland, UK

Dr. Christoph König Federal State of Salzburg, Public Health
Dept., Environmental Health
Salzburg, Austria

Prof. Dr. Michael Kundi University of Vienna, Inst. for Environmental Health
Vienna, Austria

Ronald Macfarlane Health Promotion and Environmental Protection Office, Toronto Public Health
Toronto, Canada

Dr. Malcolm MacGarvin modus vivendi, Consultant for the European Environment Agency
Glenlivet, Scotland, UK

Dr. Fiorenzo Marinelli1 Ist. di Citomorfologia C.N.R. Bologna, Italy

Prof. Dr. Wilhelm Mosgöller University of Vienna, Inst. for Cancer Research
Vienna, Austria

Dr. Gerd Oberfeld Federal State of Salzburg, Public Health
Dept., Environmental Health
Salzburg, Austria

Dr. Colin Ramsay Scottish Center for Infection and Environmental Health (SCIEH)
Glasgow, Scotland, UK

MA Cindy Sage Sage Associates Santa Barbara, California, USA

Dr. Luis Slesin Microwave News New York , USA

Prof. Dr. Stan Szmigielski1 Department of Microwave Safety, Military Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology
Warsaw, Poland

1) This preliminary guideline level of 1 mW/m² (0.1 μW/cm²) is, by the participants marked with a (1), understood as an operational level for one facility (e.g. a cell tower).


Further Signatures given after the Conference

Disclaimer: The Resolution represents the personal opinion of the undersigning scientist and public health specialist and not that of the organization they are affiliated to.

Prof. Dr. Olle Johansson Department of Neuroscience, Karolinska Institute
Stockholm, Sweden

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La résolution de Salzburg a été publiée à l'occasion de la conférence de Salzburg les 7 et 8 Juin 2000. Plus d'informations sur le site de la ville de Salzburg : http://www.salzburg.gv.at/themen/gs/gesundheit/umweltmedizin/elektrosmog/celltower_e.htm