Brussels, 22 March 2012 - The European Commission has today requested Cyprus to adopt national legislation on transportable pressure equipment in accordance with its obligations under European Union law.

Transport safety: Commission asks Italy to adopt rules on transportable pressure equipment

provide the competent national authority, on request, with all necessary information and documentation to prove the conformity of the transportable pressure equipment.

143. According to the applicant, in the present case there are objective, relevant and consistent factors to indicate that the procedure was initiated by the Bureau for purely political reasons under pressure from the spokesmen of two Spanish political groups, which allegedly asked the three Spanish Vice-Presidents to take action within the Bureau against the applicant.

Thousands of pressure equipment products, from pressure cookers to divers' air bottles to non-nuclear power stations, will be subject to strict new safety standards from 30 May 2002, when a new Directive is fully implemented across the EU.

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