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TEP Seminar V ? TREE MORPHOLOGY
FINAL PLACES NOW AVAILABLE ? Ashton Court, Bristol - 23rd & 24th March
Dr Pierre Raimbault - Use of Tree Architecture as a Basis for Tree
Assessment
Dr Milena Martenkov - Understanding Branch & Root Architecture
Dr David Lonsdale - Tree Morphology &Tree Assessment & Management
www.treeworks.co.uk/seminars, seminars@xxxxxxxxxx.co.uk or 0117 9105 200
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Once you start down that road Jerry theres noooooo turning back.
You may become a target. Go missing one day, buried in a desert. RossGate.

Excellent idea though.


CS

To: "UK Tree Care" <uktc@xxxxxx.tree-care.info>
Sent: Friday, March 17, 2006 8:46 AM
Subject: Storm the BSI!

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TEP Seminar V - TREE MORPHOLOGY
FINAL PLACES NOW AVAILABLE - Ashton Court, Bristol - 23rd & 24th March
Dr Pierre Raimbault - Use of Tree Architecture as a Basis for Tree
Assessment
Dr Milena Martenkov - Understanding Branch & Root Architecture
Dr David Lonsdale - Tree Morphology &Tree Assessment & Management
www.treeworks.co.uk/seminars, seminars@xxxxxxxxxx.co.uk or 0117 9105 200
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Pete Hughes wrote:

Just an observation: how many contractors have a copy of BS3998? At £68

it's a bit pricey, photocopying it is illegal (I think?)

Broadening the "Standard of Tree Work" thread (well, diverting it entirely

actually) - yeah, photocopying it is illegal and yeah, it's pricey - and

you can bet your bottom euro that it will be priced at well over £100 when

Derek Patch and his colleagues has finished updating it - Just as

BS5837:2005 is now £120 - for which sum you get 34 computer-printed black

and white A4 pages - not even bound, but banged out in plastic

shrink-wrap.

And the BSI don't even pay the contributors' expenses!.

As these documents have the force of law (as has been pointed out, they're

often made parts of planning conditions, for instance) it seems outrageous

that they're not more freely available, preferably online.

So I've made a complaint to the Office of Fair Trading and with a request

that they investigate the BSI under the Competition Act.

I think this is a serious matter of public interest - so I've also drawn

it to the attention of my MP.

Anyone else out there want to join a campaign?
J


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