Directive (EU) 2024/2881 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 October… · Lexiara

Directive (EU) 2024/2881 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 October 2024 on ambient air quality and cleaner air for Europe (recast)

directive · European Union · 32024L2881

624 provisions in 852 nodes · 99 provisions hand work to national law

Defined terms · All instruments · Internet · air quality · atmospheric pollutant · biodiversity · carbon · consumer · consumer · consumer movement

DIRECTIVE (EU) 2024/2881 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL

of 23 October 2024

on ambient air quality and cleaner air for Europe

Opening citation 1

Opening citation 2

Opening citation 3

Opening citation 4

Opening citation 5

Opening citation 6

Article 1 Objectives

Article 2 Subject matter

Article 3 Regular review

Article 4 Definitions

Article 5 Responsibilities

Article 6 Establishment of zones and average exposure territorial units

Article 7 Assessment regime

Article 8 Assessment criteria

Article 9 Sampling points

Article 10 Monitoring supersites

Article 11 Reference measurement methods, modelling applications and data quality objectives

Article 12 Requirements where levels are lower than the limit values, target values and average exposure concentration objectives

Article 13 Limit values, target values and average exposure reduction obligations

Article 14 Critical levels for the protection of vegetation and natural ecosystems

Article 15 Exceedances of alert thresholds or information thresholds

Article 16 Contributions from natural sources

Article 17 Exceedances attributable to winter-sanding or winter-salting of roads

Article 18 Postponement of attainment deadline and exemption from the obligation to apply certain limit values

Article 19 Air quality plans and air quality roadmaps

Article 20 Short-term action plans

Article 21 Transboundary air pollution

Article 22 Public information

Article 23 Transmission of information and reporting

Article 24 Amendments to Annexes

Article 25 Exercise of the delegation

Article 26 Committee procedure

Article 27 Access to justice

Article 28 Compensation for damage to human health

Article 29 Penalties

Article 30 Transposition

Article 31 Repeal

Article 32 Entry into force and application

Article 33 Addressees

Air quality standards

Section 1 – Limit values for the protection of human health

Section 2 – Ozone target values and ozone long-term objectives

A. Definitions and criteria

B. Ozone target values

C. Long-term objectives for ozone (O3) to be attained by 1 January 2050

Section 3 – Critical levels for the protection of vegetation and natural ecosystems

Section 4 – Alert thresholds and information thresholds

A. Alert thresholds

B. Information thresholds

Section 5 – Average Exposure Reduction Obligation for PM2,5 and NO2

A. Average exposure indicator

B. Average exposure reduction obligations

C. Average exposure concentration objectives

Assessment thresholds

Section 1 – Assessment thresholds for health protection

Section 2 – Assessment thresholds for the protection of vegetation and natural ecosystems

Minimum numbers of sampling points for fixed measurement

1. Diffuse sources

2. Point sources

1. Critical levels for the protection of vegetation and natural ecosystems

2. Long-term objective for the protection of human health and vegetation for ozone

Assessment of ambient air quality and location of sampling points

B. Macroscale siting of sampling points

2. Protection of human health

3. Protection of vegetation and natural ecosystems

4. Additional criteria for ozone sampling points

5. Criteria for determining the spatial representativeness area of sampling points

C. Micro-scale siting of sampling points

D. Site selection, its review and documentation

Data quality objectives

A. Uncertainty of measurements and modelling applications for ambient air quality assessment

B. Data coverage of measurements for ambient air quality assessment

C. Criteria for aggregation of data for ambient air quality assessment

D. Methods for assessing compliance and estimating statistical parameters to account for low data coverage or significant data losses

E. Results of air quality assessment

F. Quality assurance for ambient air quality assessment; data validation

G. Promotion of harmonised air quality modelling approaches

Reference methods for assessment of concentrations in ambient air and deposition rates

B. Demonstration of equivalence

C. Standardisation

D. Mutual recognition of data

E. Reference air quality modelling applications

Measurements at monitoring supersites and of mass concentration, chemical composition of PM2,5, ozone precursor substances and ultrafine particles

Section 1 – Measurements of pollutants at monitoring supersites

Section 2 – Measurements of mass concentration and chemical composition of PM2,5

Section 3 – Measurements of ozone precursor substances

Section 4 – MeasurementS of ultrafine particles (UFP)

Information to be included in air quality plans and air quality roadmaps for improvement in ambient air quality

A. Information to be provided under Article 19(6)

1. Localisation of excess pollution

2. General information

3. Responsible authorities

B. Indicative list of air pollution abatement measures

Emergency measures to be considered for inclusion in the short-term action plans required under Article 20

Public information

Repealed Directives with lists of the successive amendments thereto (referred to in Article 31)

Time-limits for transposition into national law (referred to in Article 31)

Correlation table