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Air pollution by ozone across Europe during summer 2010
EEA Technical report No 6/2011
Released: 2010/06/06: See the report
Overview of exceedances of EC ozone threshold values during April - September 2010
Abstract: This report shows that the long-term objective to protect human health (maximum daily eight-hour mean concentration of 120 µg/m3) was exceeded in all EU Member States and in most of the other reporting European countries at least once during summer 2010. As in previous years, the most widespread concentrations occurred in the Mediterranean area. However, areas of western and central Europe experienced higher ozone concentrations than in 2009.
Preliminary results show that 17 EU Member States (Austria, Bulgaria, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Luxembourg, Malta, Poland, Portugal, Romania, the Slovak Republic, Slovenia and Spain) are facing difficulties in meeting the target value for protecting human health, applicable as of 2010. In all these countries, the maximum daily eight-hour mean ozone concentration of 120 µg/m3 was exceeded on more than 25 days during summer 2010.
Prepared by: EEA's European Topic Centre on Air Pollution and Climate Change Mitigation (ETC/ACM) with Libor Černikovský (coordinator) as main author with contributions of Blanka Krejčí, Pavel Kurfürst, Vladimíra Volná (all CHMI), and Jaume Targa (4sfera).
EEA project manager: Peder Gabrielsen, Valentin Foltescu.
Publish date: 6 June 2010
Published by: EEA (European Environment Agency), 42 pp.