On behalf of Brunico Town Council, on possible damage to health by the new 5G mobile communications technology 

On 19 February 2020, Brunico Town Council (Bolzano-Alto Adige Province) adopted a resolution questioning the compatibility of 5G technology for mobile communicationswith public health, in the absence of scientific evidence of its impact on persons, animals and nature. In this regard, the petitioner evokes Article 191 TFEU, particularly the precautionary principle and the principle of preventive action. As the town council does not have any way of monitoring the effects on groups of sensitive persons (children, young people, elderly people or people with chronic diseases) of the increase in exposure to electromagnetic waves, it calls for legislation to be adopted at European level to establish sensitive areas, in order to reduce the existing limit values or to introduce bans on the installation of mobile communications masts and the use of other similar transmission technology. The town council also calls for the funding of ad hoc health studies, to be carried out by independent bodies.