October 1, 1992, Thursday

Sect finds mark of Antichrist in EC

From Tom Walker in Brussels

A CHRISTIAN sect has objected to Brussels that a widely used EC standards mark could represent the Antichrist.

The Exclusive Brethren, an offshoot of the Plymouth Brethren, has said that the use of EC logos the Community is known as CE on the Continent corresponds uncomfortably with predictions in the Book of Revelations in the New Testament. They say that such trademarks resemble the mark of the beast in Chapter 13 of Revelations, a mark that some Christian groups associate with the Antichrist.

Martin Bangemann, the EC internal market commissioner, in a recent issue of The Official Journal of the European Communities, said: "It has indeed been brought to the Commission's attention that some individuals object to the obligation to affix the CE mark because they compare it to the Beast in the Book of Revelations." Herr Bangemann has tried to appease the group by saying that use of the CE logo on anything from toys to test tubes will be known in future as CE marking "to distinguish it clearly from the notion of a mark", but has given no hint that religious sects might be given a derogation from using the mark.

The Exclusive Brethren say that the Beast clearly represents Europe. "The beast," Revelations says, "forced all the people, small and great, rich and poor, slave and free, to have a mark placed on their right hands or on their foreheads."

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