We give details on a different pages of the legal and regulatory situation in a number of countries. In this section, we give details of some of the more important specific exposure limits that have been published. The following table also summarises which countries if any they are used in.
| Limit |
Full name of organisation |
Where it is used |
| NRPB 1993 |
National Radiological Protection Board |
The exposure limits that applied in the UK from 1993 to 2004 |
| ICNIRP 1998 |
International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation |
The basis of the limits that now apply in the UK and Europe |
| EU 1999 |
European Union |
European Recommendation on public exposure, based on ICNIRP (1998) |
| ICES 2002 |
International Committee on Electromagnetic safety |
Not yet adopted in any country that we know of |
| EU 2004 |
European Union |
European limits on occupational exposure, currently deferred pending revision |
| NRPB 2004 |
National Radiological Protection Board |
Recommendation to Government to adopt ICNIRP (1998) in the UK |
| ICNIRP draft 2009 |
International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation |
Draft for consultation |
| ICNIRP 2010 |
International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation |
New guidelines |
| EU 2011 |
European Union |
Commission proposal to replace 2004 Directive on occupational exposure |
The Bioinitiative Report also proposed exposure limits, but it is principally a review of the science so we deal with it in that section not here.
We also give details of how these various exposure limits deal with indirect effects such as microshocks.
