05 - Innovation and Challenges for the Revision of the Air Quality EU Directive

Event
Sixth Scientific Meeting EuNetAir
2016-10-05 - 2016-10-07
Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic
Band
Sixth Scientific Meeting EuNetAir
Chapter
Proceedings
Author(s)
C. Borrego, J. Ginja, C. Ribeiro, M. Coutinho - Institute of Environment and Development, Campus Universitário, Aveiro, Portugal
Pages
18 - 21
DOI
10.5162/6EuNetAir2016/05
Price
free

Abstract

The current Directive 2008/50/EC on ambient air quality and cleaner air for Europe establishes the need to reduce pollution to levels that minimise harmful effects on human health, paying particular attention to sensitive populations and the environment as a whole, to improve the monitoring and assessment of air quality including the deposition of pollutants, and to provide information to the public. This work summarises the current status of AQD implementation and identifies new challenges for the future directive revision, namely on the selected pollutants, monitoring strategies and combined use of monitoring and modelling techniques.

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