The Air Quality Limit Values (Wales) Regulations 2002

Responsibility for implementation of the Air Framework Directive

3.  For the purposes of Article 3 (implementation and responsibilities) of Council Directive 96/62/EC on ambient air quality assessment and management(1) the National Assembly is the competent authority in Wales responsible for—

(a) implementation of that Directive;

(b) assessment of ambient air quality;

(c) approval of measuring devices (methods, equipment, networks and laboratories);

(d) ensuring accuracy of measurement by measuring devices and checking the maintenance of such accuracy by those devices, in particular by internal quality controls carried out in accordance with applicable quality assurance standards, including European standards;

(e) analysis of assessment methods; and

(f) co-ordination within Wales of European Community-wide quality assurance programmes, save insofar as that co-ordination entails communication with the European Commission.

(1)

OJ No L296, 21.11.96, p. 55.