<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Dear Max and all the others on this list<div><br></div><div>I just want to mention (one more time), that it was not me or the asbn (our network)</div><div>who made the ETA (European Technical Approval) in Austria, it was the company Waldland (an agricultural organisation)</div><div>together with a carpenter (Kreativer Holzbau). And it was made for a special system, build by this carpenter, </div><div>who wanted at this time export the modules even to Germany (as Austria is a small market).</div><div><br></div><div>As the national network we document, whats happening around straw bale building in Austria,</div><div>and it is clear for us (as an independant network) to talk about and spread such (good) news.</div><div><br></div><div>But we also try to tell and speak about the negative aspects (and always did),</div><div>and possible ways out of a dilemma.</div><div><br></div><div>In case of ETA: asbn had never the chance to prevent or forbid that (even if we had known the results).</div><div>As soon as the market is there (in a country), each company can make an ETA for building straw bales.</div><div>Knauf could do it, BASF could do it, Steico could do it, whoever thinks, that there is a market for a building product,</div><div>could establish and manufacture approved building strawbales.</div><div><br></div><div>And no straw bale network around the world could prevent that. </div><div>It can happen to you too, in Czech Republic, or in each other European country.</div><div>This is a free market... </div><div><br><div apple-content-edited="true"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>all the best</div><div>Herbert</div><div>-----------------</div><div>asbn - austrian strawbale network</div><div><br></div></div><div><br></div></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> </div><br><div><div>Am 05.03.2013 um 08:57 schrieb Max Vittrup Jensen:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr">Certified bales are also unknown in CZ, hence a triple 'Yes'.<br><br>Seems to me that Austria has gotten themselves into the trouble predicted at ESBG 2007, or simply put: I agree fully with the comment by Paul Lynch.<br> <br>Cheers,<br>Max</div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>