just found a link to the eu site. it seems that they are worried about the ammount of accidents with water fed poles. there has been 100's of accidents throuout europe, trailing hoses electrocution with overhead cables and tanks insecure in vans. so the EU are fasttracking a banning order, they are talking about relaxing the ladder rules to compinsate. get the scrim and squegees out, looks like we are in trouble.
will try and post the link later its huge and i cant get it to shrink using tinyurl