Europe: children under 12 could fire bangers

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from the thread by javiktala at spanish forum

Last year there was a big upset in valencia with the new law coming from the EU not letting children under 12 to fire any kind of fireworks.

As a result a big desperta (throwing those small tro de bac)with children (with signed parental permission)and people of all ages was organized. Spanish goberment cancelled the application of the law for some time to let youngsters fire bangers in fallas.

Today javikatala has found this new information that i'm translating for you.
Original thread here.


Satisfaction in the fallas world. This was the general reaction to the news advanced by 20 minutes this wednesdayç, where it was informed that European Union has clarified, in a report, that in the directive they never forbid the use of bangers to under 12 years old people, as it was applied by spanish goberment in february of the last year.

According to the European Parlament, children under 12 can use class 1 products always under adult supervision.

The european law only regulates the selling and ask to respect local customs.
The prsident of fallas association 'La seu-la xerea-el mercat', JMSalvador, commented yesterday: 'it looks great to us, we are in favor of that, what has to be controlled is the selling to avoid the sold of anything to minors'.

Pendings of the moratorium
Spansih goberment forbid the use of bangers to people under 12 last february, but because of the complaints from falleros, they approbed a moratorium until 4 january of 2010. Not the goberment nor the city hall wanted to made declarations yeasterday until the studied it.
 
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