The Air Quality Limit Values (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2003

This Scottish Statutory Instrument has been made in consequence of a defect in S.S.I. 2003/428, and is being issued free of charge to all known recipients of that instrument.

Scottish Statutory Instruments

2003 No. 547

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

The Air Quality Limit Values (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2003

Made

11th November 2003

Laid before the Scottish Parliament

13th November 2003

Coming into force

5th December 2003

The Scottish Ministers, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972(1) and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby make the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Air Quality Limit Values (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2003 and shall come into force on 5th December 2003.

Amendment of the Air Quality Limit Values (Scotland) Regulations 2003

2.—(1) The Air Quality Limit Values (Scotland) Regulations 2003(2) are amended in accordance with the following paragraphs of this regulation.

(2) In the table entitled “Target Values for Ozone” in Part II of Schedule 2, for “human health” in the second entry in the first column substitute “vegetation”.

(3) In the table entitled “Diffuse sources” in paragraph 1.1 of Part I of Schedule 5, between “of” and “zone” in the heading of the first column insert “agglomeration or”.

ALLAN WILSON

Authorised to sign by the Scottish Ministers

St Andrew’s House, Edinburgh

11th November 2003

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations correct errors contained in the Air Quality Limit Values (Scotland) Regulations 2003.

Regulation 2(2) is made in order to transpose accurately Part II of Annex I of Directive 2002/3/EC of the European Parliament and Council relating to ozone in ambient air (O.J. No. L 67, 9.3.2002, p.14).

Regulation 2(3) is made in order to reflect accurately Part I of Schedule 4 of the Air Quality Limit Values (Scotland) Regulations 2001 (S.I. 2001/2315) (as amended) which were consolidated in the Air Quality Limit Values (Scotland) Regulations 2003.

(1)

1972 c. 68. Section 2(2) was amended by the Scotland Act 1998 (c. 46), Schedule 8, paragraph 15(3). The function conferred upon the Minister of the Crown under section 2(2), insofar as within devolved competence, was transferred to the Scottish Ministers by virtue of section 53 of the Scotland Act 1998 (c. 46).

(2)

S.S.I. 2003/428.