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Directive 2008/50/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 21 May 2008 on ambient air quality and cleaner air for Europe
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To be measured over three consecutive hours at locations representative of air quality over at least 100 km2 or an entire zone or agglomeration, whichever is the smaller.
Pollutant | Alert threshold |
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Sulphur dioxide | 500 µg/m3 |
Nitrogen dioxide | 400 µg/m3 |
a For the implementation of Article 24, the exceedance of the threshold is to be measured or predicted for three consecutive hours. | ||
Purpose | Averaging period | Threshold |
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Information | 1 hour | 180 µg/m3 |
Alert | 1 houra | 240 µg/m3 |
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