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The Air Quality Limit Values (Amendment) Regulations 2002
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These Regulations are made to implement in England European Parliament and Council Directive 2000/69/EC relating to limit values for benzene and carbon monoxide in ambient air(1). They amend the Air Quality Limit Values Regulations 2001(2) which in turn implement Council Directive 96/62/EC on ambient air quality assessment and management(3) (the Air Framework Directive) and Council Directive 1999/30/EC relating to limit values for sulphur dioxide, nitrogen dioxide and oxides of nitrogen, particulate matter and lead in ambient air(4).
The parts of the Air Quality Limit Values Regulations 2001 which these Regulations amend apply only in England.
Regulation 2 amends those Regulations by: adding a new regulation 2A designating the Secretary of State as competent authority for the purposes of the Air Framework Directive; adding benzene and carbon monoxide as “relevant pollutants”; setting limit values and margins of tolerance for those substances; determining criteria for location and numbers of sampling points; setting reference methods for the analysis and sampling of those substances; and making consequential amendments.
Regulation 2(10) amends Schedule 2 to those Regulations to give effect to Commission Decision 2001/744/EC amending Annex V to Council Directive 1999/30/EC relating to the limit values for sulphur dioxide, nitrogen dioxide and oxides of nitrogen, particulate matter and lead in ambient air(5).
(1)
OJ No. L313, 13.12.2000, p. 12.
(2)
S.I. 2001/2315.
(3)
OJ No. L 296, 21.11.1996, p. 55.
(4)
OJ No. L163, 29.6.1999, p. 41.
(5)
OJ No. L 278, 23.10.2001, p. 35.
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