The Air Quality (Ozone) (Wales) Regulations 2003

Public information

7.—(1) The National Assembly must ensure that up-to-date information on levels of ozone is routinely made available to the public in accordance with the provisions of this Regulation.

(2) The information on levels of ozone in paragraph (1) must be updated —

(a) where appropriate and practicable, on an hourly basis;

(b) in all other cases, as a minimum, on a daily basis.

(3) Information made available under paragraph (1) must include —

(a) an indication of all incidents when the level of ozone, when assessed by reference to any relevant averaging period, exceeded —

(i) the long-term objective for the protection of health;

(ii) the information threshold;

(iii) the alert threshold;

and a short evaluation of the effect of those exceedances on human health;

(b) comprehensive annual reports; and

(c) timely information about actual or predicted exceedances of the alert threshold.

(4) The annual reports referred to in paragraph (3)(b) must, as a minimum, —

(a) indicate, for human health, any exceedances of the target value, the long-term objective, the information threshold or the alert threshold for the relevant averaging period;

(b) indicate, for vegetation, any exceedances of the target value or the long-term objective; and

(c) include, where appropriate, a short evaluation of the effect of those exceedances.

(5) For the purposes of this regulation, the “relevant averaging period” —

(a) in relation to target values, is set out in Part II of Schedule 1;

(b) in relation to the long-term objective for the protection of health, is set out in Part III of Schedule 1; and

(c) in relation to the information threshold and the alert threshold, is set out in Part I of Schedule 7.

(6) Information made available under paragraph (3)(c) must, in addition to being provided to the public, be provided to any local health board whose area is or may be affected by such an exceedance.

(7) The National Assembly may publish the information and reports referred to in this regulation in such a manner as it considers appropriate, having regard to the nature of that information and those reports.

(8) Where the alert threshold or information threshold is exceeded, the National Assembly must supply to the public the information specified in Part II of Schedule 7.

(9) Where an exceedance of the alert threshold or the information threshold is predicted, the National Assembly must, where practicable, supply to the public the information specified in Part II of Schedule 7.

(10) Information made available to the public under this regulation must be clear, comprehensible and accessible.