At a hearing for European Commissioner Designate Mimica, Frank Engel, a Member of the European Parliament from Luxemburg, asked him what he would do to improve hotel fire safety

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Hotel fire safety has been on the agenda for decades in Brussels but no real progress has been made since the publication in 1986 of a Recommendation on fire safety in existing hotels. That document contained many prescriptive measures about the layout of the building and was therefore impractical to apply to existing hotels. Now major hotel chains are asking for a Directive since they are concerned a major European hotel fire in any hotel could damage their business.