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ASIA
.1l~~'AN
65 I'ercent Polled Fear TncreASing Pollution
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MI'1'I Presses I:nvironmental Guidelines for Overseas Pro~ects
(NI~ION KCI7.AI S!{INi3UN, 30 Dec 78) 2
Gumprchensive Itesearch Group To Study Pollution
(TH~ JAPAN TIMES, 7 Jan 79) 5
New Water Pollution S~tandards May Increase Pollution
(MAINICHI DAILY NEWS, 14 Jan 79) 6
Chiba Prefecture Adopts Stiff NOx Limit
(MAINICHI DAILY NCWS, 15 Feb 79) 7
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WESTERN EUROPE
WI:ST CI.IZM/1NY
i:~c;~ped Chemicals Pollute Air in Bavaria
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'!'nlcyu 'l'fti: JN'AN 'C1MI;S in I:nglish 1 I~eb 79 p?.
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, A poil conducted by the En� 'Chey belleve growing num� According to the pull, 48
vlronment Agency showed tnat bera of automobiies will turlher percent sald yes to ~ questlon
a~ many as 85 percent ot those pollute the alr and riase the ~~Uo you thlnk environmental =
polled tear ~hAt pollutlun In nose level. pnlluUon has hecomc more -
Japao wlll worsen In the (uturr. Thcy atso thlnk lhat the serious than tour nr tive years
The poll, the result ot whlch strenms and the beaches wlll be ago?" _
wa~ announced ThursdAy, also turther contaminated by it was 19.1 percent down trom
showed that revving up ef car household waslc. the r~te obtalned (or the samc =
engines topped the Ilst o~ The Envfronment Agency questfon In the 1974 s~irvey.
complaints about nolse said 500 monitors scattered The reductlon signitles
polluttoninresldentlalareas, throu~hout the country ~~prog~ is being achleved
In the !Is! ot the sacalled responded to the "pollutlon through the, environmental _
"netghborhood nulsances," the survey." held last October, the policles of the country," agency
nnise ot autom~blle englnes wns tlrst of Its kind alnce 1974. ofticlais sald.
fullowed by that ot loud- Ottlclals o[ the agency sald an
spenkers used by venctors ot oplnlon survey speciflcaUy on `
tollet paper and other Items. Automoblles woutd be held in
Other r~urces ot rnmplalnts ntarch because the latest
were notsy pets, TV, stereos, survey polnted to the ~
nelghtMrs' volces, coolrrs and ~ seriousness of automobile _
nolse from bars and pachinko pollutlon.
pnrlors. The results ot such surveys
- l3ut 7U percent of those who are taken Into account in _
were annciyed by such nolses mappin~ oul envlronmental =
ta~k rx~ actlon to avofd dlaputea polictes.
wllh thelr nelqhbors. In cltles and the countryslde, =
h'I(ty-slx perceot ot thage nolse , was cited as the _
survcycd ~ald th~t lhey were blagest source of annoyance. Il =
vlcliml�r.~~d by such torma of wa:~ then tol~owed by at� _
p~~llutlon one lime or more In mospherlc poUutlon, odors, t-
thepustyear. water contamination,
Incrcasing numbers ot vlbraW,ar, eoli polutbn and `
restdents in the countryslde atouhA sUddng ~n that order.
tcur ~iUuU~n wlll Increa.qe.
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MITI PRESSES ENVIRONMENTAL GUIDELINES FOR OVERSEAS PROJECTS
Tokyo NIHON KEIZAI SHINBUN in Japaneae 30 Dec 78 p 23
[Text~ Environmental polluCion problems caused by Japanese companiea in
- Third World countries have recently aCtracted atCention. In addieion to
auch cases as one now in litigation where a Japaneae company was ordered
by the government (Brazil-A~inomoto Company) to temporarily halt operations
becaus~ of planC wasCe waCer, and anoCher where a company was ordered to
make indemnity payments of approximately 1.2 billion yen for mining pollu-
tion QMalaysia--"Mamuuto" Mine), according to studies by MITI and others
there are said to be more than 10 cases of "pollution trouble." Ther~fore,
in an effort to prevent this from becoming a stimulus for anti-Japanese
feelings i,n those areas, MITI is strengthening guidelines for Japanese
- companies operat~ng overseas.
The case between Brazil and Ajinomoto (the local corporate name is "Ajinomoto
Inter-Americana Company) first came up in October 1977. The waste water from
_ the company's plant producing monosodium glutamate was fouling the river,
polluting the water supp].y for Americana City. Without warning, A3inomoto
received an order to halt operations for 49 days from the Sao Paulo Stgte ~
Industrial Pollution Buresu. They were able to resume operaCions again in
December, but in February 1978 they w~ere indicted by city authorities, and
_ even now hearinga are continuing.
As might be expected, in view of increasing local employment and raising the
people's standard of living, the plant had hoped that the people would not
overly worry about pollution. However, there was a strong reaction. Also
= in Sao Paulo s~aCe, another 100 percent Japancse-owned subsidiary named
- "Atoranchika," one of the five largest tanning factories in Brazil, has -
_ also repeatedly received warning notices from local authorities for factory
_ discharge and bad odor problems.
According to Assistant Chairman Haku Nakano of the Brazil Air Pollution Pre-
_ vention Assbciation, "Brnzilian air pollution is much worse than you might
imagine. Even though Brazil's land area is large, nature's purification
process does not necessarily save us fram the effects of environmental pol-
lution." He also poinCs out that in the Ajinomoto case, "One must suspect
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_ tlicm oF comiug to Brazil because iC does not have as strict standurds n~
~ ,Jnp~~?i ancl becau~e tlie peopl.e have ~.iCtle pnwer,"
- ~H F~ r~sult of. the rtal~yyian people's increased awureness of pollutl.on ~
prnblems, recently there huve been at least three cases of polluCion
problems involving Japanese firms~ One is the "MamuuCo" copper mine, -
financed by aeven Japanese copper prod~ictng companies includin~ the
i�titsubishi Mc:Cal Mining Company as wel.l a:~ Che Overser~s ~conomic Coopera-
tion ~und, and managed by OMItD Sabah Company, whicii was set up in a~oint _
venture with locnl c~p:ital. Earth and sand displaced in extracting Che -
copper was washed into ad~oining fields by torrential raina in I~ebruary
1977, completely burying Chem. _
Tn response Co th~ incident, rhe~company t~as already paid the farmers ap-
proximuL�ely 70 million yen as compens~tion for lost producCion, but ~In
July 1978 Che Sabah state government requestied approximately 1.2 billion
yen for relocation expenses for the afflicted farmers. This wns noe only -
for the d~mage caused by the runoff of earth and sand, but ~lso in response
to the residents' complaints of copper poisoning. DespiCe Ctie company's
objecCions Chat "there is no copper poisoning," according to the rPSUlts
of analysis of the soil surrounding the mine by the AnCi-Pollution ExporC
Inf.ormation Center (Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku) in a recent on-the-spot investiga-
tton, the in~urious heAVy meCal chrome was detected at the high level of
2560 PPM, and a high concentration of copper was present at 1170 PPM.
Also, it tias been pointed out that at the fishing village of Kuala "Juru"
in northern Malaysia, the fishermen have been deprived of their livelihood
by the factory discharge from Che ploywood industrial development esCab- -
lished by 20-odd Japanese companies, incl~ding Toray Industries. It is
also claimed that residents at the Penang International Ai~port were af-
flicted by "earth and sand pollution" left by Japanese companies (Maeda
Construction Company) in the process of extending the runways.
In connection with the litigation banning pollution at its Chiba plant,
- Kawasaki Steel Corporation decided to build the sintering furnaces it
had ori~;inally planned on locating domestically on Mindanao Island in the
Philippines instead. Since 1974, such tactics of "exporting polluCion" -
- l~ave caused quite a bit of commoCion. The plant ceased operations in
rtay 1977, but according to a study released last month by TaCemi Yamada,
a lecturer at Sophia University involved in this issue, four workers at _
the plant have become asthmatic. Kawasaki Steel denies such criticism
saying, "The concentrations of sulphur oxides (SOx) and nitrogen oxides
(NCx) are a whole figure lower than plants in Japan, and electric dust
collectors are used against dust and other particles. Water used for
cooling is recycled, and so pollution countermeasures are complete (En-
vironmental Supervision DeparCment)." However, the pollution issue is
tangled up with a human rights issue of compulsory transfers of the local
people involved in the plant construction. Although it is not clear whe-
ther pollution exists or not, this is a good example where agreement with
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the local civic authorities wna not necesearily agreemenC wirh the local
people. ,
In addition to theae cases, the same kinda of pollueion problems are occur-
ring in other Asian natinns. Japanese chemical industry inroads inCo
Korea, Che Asahi Caustic Soda [Company] mercury pollution problem in
Thailand, and Che desCrucCive logging pracCices of Honshu Paper Company
operations in Papua New Guinea are examples, Even on the list of inci-
dents of friction between local societies nnd Japanese companies compiled
by MITI last year, there have been 10 cases of "environmental (pollution)
- problems" since 1974, second only to "labor problems" (15 cases).
MITI says, "Among these 10 cases, even if there is not actually any po11u-
tion damage, the resulC is Crouble from misunderstandings and anti-Japanese
feelings. However, becauae each counCry's views on pollution d{ffer, the
solution is not aimply a maCter of drawing up a physical pollu~ion preven-
tion policy, it will also require a policy Cowards the locRl people to im- `
prove their understandi.ng of Japanese firms."
Concerning this problem, Jun Nishikawa, professor (international economics)
ut Waseda UniversiCy, points out, "Japanese companies' methods of going
into other countries present problems. They usually do not consult wiCh
the locnl people, only with the government. Also, as far as company at-
titudes are concerned, Chere seems to be a phenomenon of a distinct dif-
ference beCween Japanese companies, who are mostly c:oncerned about their =
stockholders, and American companies, who are highly aware of making a
contribution to the local society. ,lapanese companies should become more
inclined towards learning a le~son from the pollution problems they caused
in Japan."
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COMI'R~Hi:NSIVr I2I:S~ARCH GROUY TO STUDY POLLUTION
' 7'okyo �rtir ,1A1'AN '~IMF5 in ]snglish 7 J~~n 79 p 2
('I'r..xt ] ~rhe Kuvernment's studles on stltule's more thi~n IoU ~n how nltrogen dloxlde ntfects
pollutlon und Ity effects on the researchers and universlty the health of rnts. The two�ye~r =
envlranment nppear to have p?'ofessors on the payroll nre chronic toxirlty tesl ~vas
hecome tu11�tledged a~ith the glven wl~e optlons In pursuing ~~unched last year.
c~st nbl Ishment of n com� sub~ects ot Interest to them Att~r nitrogen dloxlde studies
prehensive resenrch ~roup In wlthout R olltlcal Intervention. Are completed, probes into the
Ibnrakl Pretecture after pcople One o[ the tentures ot the composlte pollutiun ot the Al�
starte~; rumplalnln~; of en� ~n9f,~lUlC AI30 IS IhA~ SpCCIAIISIS mosphere by nzone And the
vira~,mentiil hn~urds. trom many flelds, Including eClects on the human bedy of
7'he Kroup the Nntlnnnl natural sclences such ~s heavymetalsareplanned.
InsUtute for ~nvlronmental physlcAl srlence, englncerfng, The .photochemical smog
_ titudlcK - is no~~~ U~nclna thc hiology nnd agrlculture and chAmber Is a horizontal
pr~cess generatln~ nitro~en ~Iso the ~u?nanlties such as cyltndrlcal devlce wllh an in-
, dloxlde, n maJor alr pollutant economlcs and soctology, Are ternal diAmeter of 198 cm and a
s a f d t o b e c a u s I n q jofning hands for speci(Ic 1ength ot 350 cm. lt Is equlpped
photochemiral smog In many research pro~ects, wtth a solar simuletor, An alr
cltles, [t Is doing so wlth Indoor The Institute has research Purifler and a chemical
~Imulauon tpsts c~A~med to be y
tacilitles tor plant experiments anai zer.
ot lhe worid's highest quality. ~phytotmnl, tor animal ex� Wjth the use ot the devlce,
The institute was tounded In periments lzootron) and tor researchers say they have
October 1974 at the Tsukuba w a t e r e n v f ro n m e n t e x- tound that photbchemlcAl smog
re.gearch and academlc town perimnnts (aquatron~, as well inereases In density in
IorAted nt the toot ot Mt, as its photochemfcal smog nropo~rti e n t~d 1 o x I d e un n o t
1'sukuba, r,~me 40 km so~UhWest chamber for atmospheric hydrocarbon, ln thealc.
~>f Mllo, chemlcal reactlonstudles�. It is sald that hotochemtcai
'1'he town is designed lo. ec� In additlon. It has an at- p
cept 43 state�run research mospheric dittusfon wlnd tunnel ~mog is developed when -
~;roups eventually. to simulate actual pt.yslcal hydrocarbons and nitrogen
'fhe alm ot the InsUwte Is to oxides react with ozone In the
detlne the im act ollutfon has phenomene In the atmasphere, ~r and the Wtra�violet rays o[
P P such as the tlow and dittuslon ot ~e sun.
_ on the envlronment and human po~~utants. But, the actual
he~llh tlrst and ther~ tlnd out Other [acllltles are tor soll ~duction has p~~ ot
ways ot creaUng an en� ~nvlronment experiments, p yet to be =
vlronment tnvorable to human radlofsotope expertments and claritled.
Ifving. waste treatment. The atmospherlc dltfuslon
Desplte Its afflllallon with the In the zootron sector, twa W~nd tunnel has shown that the
h:nvironment Aaency, the In� year studles are now under way dtsparity In temperatures
during the day and Nght along _
aeashores causes alr
COPYKICNT: THC JAPAN TIMES 1979 pollutants to clrcWate and risc
In concentratlon.
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NI'W WATI:R POLLUTION STANDAR~S MAY INCREASE POLLUTION ~
'1'okyo MAINICIiI DAILY NEWS in English 14 Jan 79 p 12
_ [ 7'ex t J Ttk Environment Agency, tective whe~ the nwnbeR ot _
onoe crltlciud tor easiag polluters increases. .
controls on nitroqen ozides In entorciug thee controls ot
(NOx)~ is Planning to do the tbe new tYPe. ~~B~Y A~ -
saa~e in tixing new standards of to allow each pretecture to tix
oontrols on water pollutioa. 1ts own maximum COD levels
Thts is the fearen by withLt ce'ttain limlts to be set by
pollutton fighters in~1'o~aod ~~Y�
~ p~~ Aatipollution ofticials of
ot Kanagawa, Saltama and TokS'o aad the three Ml~er
Chlba. A tent~live guidance Pret~. ~ever, learoed .
relea~d by thc a~eaCy in. that some ot the pollution levels
dicates tl~at some ot We ti~test ~Y bY ~~B~Y are
controls envlsaged by the . mwh eas3er than those the
aqency may evea be much P~~ ~ve entorced.
easier than tbe contnols alreac~y 'Pbe maxfmum permL~sible
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ COD density tor waters -
~ ~ ~pop~ dlscdarged by a sewage -
Beginniug in J~me this year, trea~t plan is �0 ppm in _
the governmeat plana to en- a+ad 25 ppm ia Tokyo. The
fora a nevv tamula oi water ?~�C3''s tentadve plap, oa the
poqutioa oontrol in three ot the ~er 6and, calls tor t6c
trwBt polluted areas in the manmum kwel ot 30 ppm.
cotmtry-Tokyo Bay, Ise Bay The tau pretectures are ot
with Na~oy~ as lts ceatral port~ . tbeopinioa that sucb a gvidellae _
aad tde 5eto INaad Sea. ~~Y ~ almost non- .
Under the new formula, the senaical~ because it coaapletely
maximum chemical oxygen i~�res the a�tip�~~ution eftorts . _
demand (COD) standards wW mndec+ed by tbe tour aad Mher
- be~ set tor each region. �
~ Heretotore, each polluier has ~ b0'p~Og ~ a~~'
been ordered to minlmlte his ~~~~r 1ts present
pollutbn below certatn levels- ~~1~ ~~~y a severer
a foc~aula not c~cessarU~ e[- o"e.
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CI~T13A 1'Itl;1~CG'CURC ADQPTS STIF'F NOX LIMIT
~ 't'okyo MAINICIIi pAILY NEWS in Englisti 15 Feb 78 p 1.2
~~~~~'X~ ~ CFiIBA-Chlbn Pretecture Observers say that the
~ east ot Tokyo has des(anated decislon by ChibA Pretecture
U.04 pArts per mllllon (ppm1, or may exert an intluence on other
the lower 11mit ot the tarRet pretectures which have been
zone set by the Environment unAble to tix their own targets
Agency concerninq nitroqen with the government's zone.
oxides (NOx), as the target ot Chiba at first wanted to fix
Its NOx contrnl, the same target together with _
Chiba has thus become the the three other southern Kanto
flrst pretecture to tlx its own prefectures of Tokyo,
taraet since July last year when Kanagawa and Saitama. But,
the aqency abolish~ '~ts earller various factors prevent such a
and much severer ta. ;et of 0.02 joint action.
ppm and instead otfered a new The lower limit ot the
target zo~r~ ranp,fn~ :rom 0.04 to government's target zone was a
O.O;pprr?~ fhe decision by the natural choice for Chiba which
cenu�~! p,ov~r~+~ ent invit~d has for some time concluded an .
sharp cr!Eicism from er; antipollutfon agreement with 50 -
virnnmentali:~ls all over the major industrles in the
country. prefecture on NOx, which is
It was suspected at that time most responsible for air
that the Rovernmenl had suc� pollution. According to the
cumbed to complaints tiled by agreement, these industries
- industrial circles aqainst lts must cooperate in keeping the
earlier 0.02 ppm tarAet. daily average of NOx within
0.09 ppm.
(:l)1'YRfCII'I': Mainichi Daily News, 1979
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Is'SCAP}:D C11I;MTCALS PULLUTI: ATR IN BAVARIA
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Hrimbux'~; STi:RN in Cerman 18 J~n 79 pp 146-148
[Artict.e by Gerhard Tomkowitz: "The Big I~'art"]
_ [Text] For a whole day, hal~ of Upper Bavarta
s~iffered under an ominous stinking cloud, with
- no one admitting responsibiliCy.
()n tlie morning of tlie Day of I:piphany, a holiday in Bavaria, Che Ce1ep}~ones -
r~~n~ at the police stations tn Burghausen on the Salzach and in Muehldorf
- ~n the Inn, the caller complaining about an "infernal smel~. penetrating all
cracks oC the tiouses." One inhabiCant of Burghausen reported the "smell
- of roCten eggs," another the "disgusting sme11 of old white cabbage--like an
enormous fa: i:."
~ Ttie invisib].e stinkin~ cloud spread from east to weq.t and �inally, toward
- noon, reachel Augsburg,
As early as 0430 hours, a measuring vehicle of the Bavarian Office for the
1'rotection o� Che Envirornnent had made the first pollution measurements.
The. result: The air contained.methane and hydrogen sulfide. But Che
_ Bavari.ans were in luck. W~~ile methane is explosive and hydrogen sulfide
}~ighl.y eoxic, in the established quantities of 1.5 and 0.0016 parts of
mcth~lne and hydrogen sulEide, respectively, per 1 million parts of air,
_ nc~.ither suUstance was dangerous. -
But tlicse questions remained: Might the concentration be greater elsewhere, ~
:ind where did rhe sme11 come from? The emergency service at the Office
for tlte i'rotection of the Environment first suspected that the source was
the hufie n.~tural gas stores at Assling, T�?olfersberg and Bierwang east of
Munlcli. Iiut the stores were intact.
'Pwo othcr measurin~ vehicles and one laboraCory caravan drove further east.
'l'el.epl~oT~e enquiries about possible operational breakdowns were made at all
industrial enterprises each of Munich that mtght have been responsible for
the pollution with methane and hydrogen sulfide. These included _
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1lcuts~~~li~~ M;ir:~Clu~n f'~~tr~~leum Cmbil, whicl~ h:~u p~tr~chemiCal ptnnt in th~
Hu-r.ai) l~d ~~hemir..71 tri~7nE;a n~;~r Uurf;h~u~cn. The mnna~c~ment of the pl~nt ~aid
_ tc~wnrd U20U hnurs i~ cnndrn~t.~t~ pump hnd b~en gtnpped b~cnu~e nf r~ fault, ~nd
~ "r~ !'ew drops" uf Ccmd~~~HC~tc nnd hydrogen sul Fide had ~gcaped .
livt this wn~ only .7 sm.tiil pnrC the truCh, becau~c tnward 10U0 ho~~rs ~n
nt~unymou~ caller told th~ p~nple uC the ~nvironment prot~ction offi~e:
~ "Ynu h~~J better tnke u~lnse lndk nt Ueutsche Mnrnehnn; there wag ~ big
~ brr.ykdown there l~st ni.gt~.t." 27ow, qupstinn.ed by the en�?irnnmpnt protectidn
~ ~~c~i~in~g with p~7in~u1 severity, the Eirm moved nway n little frnm the "small -
~lrup," vnytn~ th~t a thin "grurt nE liquid" hnd t_bc~ped, but ccrtainly nn
mure Chnn 5U lieprg. ChemiHCs nE the environment ofEic~, dn the other hnnd,
figured t}~~t it hnd tr b~ aC lengC 500 liters. The firm stanchly disputed
any Cnnt~ection between th~ sm~11 ~nd its chemicnls. The Ministry of Che
I:r,vironment~ howev~r, re~~rd~ the enterprise as r~sponsible, on the basis
uf "cle~~r cvidenc~."
_ Ba th~ht 1t may, the cn~e once more rev~aled a gnp in Che law. Obligatory
rrp~rt[ng is definc:d ~n impreCisely in Che ~ntipollution 1uw that firms .
find It ensy to clas;~ify bx~~hkddwn ~s a"trivial incident" not subjec[ `
to repnrtin~; and, if someChin~ h,ypptns, simply to s~y noChing. ,
'I'I~is h;~ppened, fc~r instnnce, in l~ebruary 1978. At that eime ~~bout 2 tons
oF r:ulinactive steam e~c~7~,ed ~for 4 hour5 from the OHU Nuclear Pnwer Plant
opc riited by B~7yernwerk AG ~nd Isar-Amperwerke. '~'he mana~ement of the pl~~nt
con~idrred this trivi.til nnd did nnt inform the authorities until 29 hours
hcid p~7s:~ed. .
Ac~rnrclinF; to officials in the Munich Ministry for the Protection of the ~
I:nv{ronment, "incidents liappc:n daily in the chemical industry throughout
tlie i'eJer.71 ttepublic." Many firms, however, do not report the incidents,
~7np.~rcntly in the hope th.~t the pollution connected with it will not become
known in the first Pl.~ce.
'I'hu:; 13,~vnrt,~n Mlnlster Por the ~nvironment AlFred Uick consir3ers it fortunate
that l~is off[rials were .~ble to track doWn the Deutsche Marathon Petroleum
Cmbll. Thc� firm iti no�~ threatEned with a Eine of DM105,000. Probably it
will .~lso havc to bear e:he rost of the investigativc ~~ction.
In [he mc.�.~ntimc f irm;; ~Fi~ndin~ aRainst t::c environmenC probably will continue -
tn ~;c~ unsc.7thed. Actu.~i ly people at the ~ederal Ministry of the In[erior have
' bc~�n working for mare than year ~n a"breakdown ordin.~nce" intended to
- rcm~vc th~~ ~;~ps and shortcomin~s of existing regulations. But there is no
_ a:~y o~ tellin~ wlien the ordinancc will be able to go into force, Eor the
indu~try, .~cc~rd{n~ to the Ministry of the Interior, "~ees a danger [o its
_ tr;~d~~ r;c~�rc~t~s :~ncl i~: ~lrendy complainin~; abo~t [oo much bureaucracy." And
tl~~~ I~icndrr toci kc~~p makfng new t;u~~estions for changcs. Until the next
:.tinkinf; ~loud. ~
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