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Reporting on ambient air quality assessment - Preliminary results for 2008
ETC/ACC Technical Paper 2009/10

Released: 2010/01/11: See the report

Abstract:
EU Member States have submitted annual reports on air quality in 2008 to the European Commission under the Air Quality Framework Directive (96/62/EC). This report gives a preliminary overview and analysis of the information submitted up to 23 November 2009, including a list of zones in EU Member States in relation to air quality thresholds.
Exceedances of the daily limit value of PM10, of the annual limit value of NO2 and of the target value of ozone remain the largest problems across Europe in 2008.
New in 2008 is the reporting on the pollutants of the 4^th Daughter Directives. Except from a few hot-spot situations, no exceedances of the target values of arsenic, cadmium and nickel are observed. However, the target value of benzo(a)pyrene is exceeded is a relatively large number of zones.

Prepared by: Frank de Leeuw and Edward Vixseboxse (PBL, ETC/ACC)

Published by: ETC/ACC, December 2009, 60 pp.