Table of Contents:
Air pollution
Outline of the Community (European Union) legislation about Air pollution
Topics
These categories group together and put in context the legislative and non-legislative initiatives which deal with the same topic.
Air pollution
Apart from fighting the greenhouse gases that cause climate change, a key objective of environmental legislation is to improve the quality of our air, the pollution of which has repercussions in particular on people’s health and, in the form of phenomena such as acidification and eutrophication, on the environment. European policies are targeting the various types – and sources – of pollutant. Also, in 2005 the Commission proposed a thematic strategy for reducing the number of deaths linked to air pollution by 40% (of 2000 levels) by 2020.
AIR QUALITY
- Pure air for Europe
- Thematic Strategy on Air Pollution
ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION
- National emission ceilings for certain atmospheric pollutants
- Substances affecting the ozone layer
- Geneva Convention on Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution
- Protocol on Heavy Metals
- Stockholm Convention on persistent organic pollutants (POPs)
- Recovery of petrol vapours during storage
- Petrol vapour recovery during refuelling of vehicles
LAND MOTOR VEHICLES
All motor vehicles
- Emissions from heavy duty vehicles (Euro VI): certification rules
- “Green” vehicles: a European strategy
- Reduction of pollutant emissions from light vehicles
- Quality of petrol and diesel fuels: sulphur and lead
- EU strategy for biofuels
Road vehicles
- Reduction of carbon dioxide emissions from light commercial vehicles
- Reduction in CO? emissions of new passenger cars
- Clean and energy-efficient road transport vehicles
- Passenger car related taxes
- Information on the fuel consumption and CO2 emissions of new cars
- Emissions from air conditioning systems in motor vehicles
Off road vehicles
- Non-road mobile machinery: gaseous pollutants
- Pollutant gases of wheeled agricultural or forestry tractors
OTHER VEHICLES
- Aviation and climate change
- Clean Sky
- Strategy to reduce atmospheric emissions from seagoing ships
INDUSTRY
- Industrial emissions
- Integrated pollution prevention and control (until 2013)
- Pollutants from large combustion plants
- Reducing the emissions of volatile organic compounds (VOCs)