ACTION TO ACHIEVE A GLOBAL ASBESTOS-FREE ENVIRONMENT

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That this House notes that a sub-committee of the UN Environmental Programme called for all forms of asbestos to be subject to strict international controls because of the implications for human health; welcomes the first Global Asbestos Congress held in Tokyo between 19th and 21st November 2004 attended by 800 delegates from 40 different countries; and calls on the EU and the G8 to take steps to transfer technological information on asbestos controls and substitutes to developing economies where there is no effective asbestos regulation, including the Bangladeshi and Pakistani ship-breaking beaches, the Korean asbestos textile factories and the Chinese, Vietnamese and Thai asbestos cement roofing industries, in a sustained international endeavour to bring about an asbestos-free environment.