Article 11

Transmission of information and reports After adoption by the Council of the first proposal referred to in the first indent of Article 4 (1): 1. Member States shall notify to the Commission the competent authorities, laboratories and bodies referred to in Article 3 and in the zones referred to in Article 8 (1) shall: inform the Commission of the occurrence of levels exceeding the limit value plus the margin of tolerance, of the dates or periods when such levels were observed and the values recorded in the nine-month period after the end of each year. inform the Commission of the reasons for each recorded instance, in the nine-month period after the end of each year; send to the Commission the plans or programmes referred to in Article 8 (3) no later than two years after the end of the year during which the levels were observed; inform the Commission every three years of the progress of the plan or programme; When no margin of tolerance has been fixed for a given pollutant, the zones and agglomerations where the level of such pollutant exceeds the limit value shall be treated in the same way as the zones and agglomerations referred to in the first subparagraph; shall forward to the Commission annually, and no later than nine months after the end of each year, the list of zones and agglomerations referred to in Article 8 (1) and (2) and in Article 9; shall forward fo the Commission every three years within the framework of the sectoral report referred to in Article 4 of Council Directive 91/692/EEC of 23 December 1991 standardizing and rationalizing reports on the implementation of certain Directives relating to the environment (9), and no later than nine months after the end of each three-year period, information reviewing the levels observed or assessed, as appropriate, in the zones and agglomerations referred to in Article 8 and Article 9; shall inform the Commission of the methods used for the preliminary assessment of air quality provided for in Article 5. 2. the Commission shall publish: annually, a list of the zones and agglomerations referred to in Article 8 (1); every three years, a report on the ambient air quality in the Community. This report shall show in summary form the information received through a mechanism for the exchange of information between the Commission and the Member States. 3. the Commission will call upon as necessary the expertise available in the European Environment Agency in drafting the report referred to in paragraph 2 (b).

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Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-10-12 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.