The Air Quality Standards (Wales) Regulations 2010

Statutory Instruments

2010 No. 1433 (W.126)

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION, WALES

The Air Quality Standards (Wales) Regulations 2010

Made

16 May 2010

Laid before the National Assembly for Wales

19 May 2010

Coming into force

11 June 2010

The Welsh Ministers, in exercise of the powers conferred upon the National Assembly for Wales by its designation(1) for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972(2) in relation to measures relating to the assessment and management of ambient air quality and compliance with air quality limit values, target values and objectives and now exercisable by the Welsh Ministers(3), and in exercise of the powers conferred by paragraph 1A of Schedule 2 to that Act(4), make the following Regulations.

These Regulations make provision for a purpose mentioned in section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 and it appears to the Welsh Ministers that it is expedient for references to Annexes I to VI and VIII to X and Section B of Annex XV to Directive 2008/50/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on ambient air quality and cleaner air for Europe and Section II of Annex II and Annexes III to V to Directive 2004/107/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council relating to arsenic, cadmium, mercury, nickel and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in ambient air to be construed as references to those Annexes and those Sections as amended from time to time.

(1)

S.I. 2000/2812.

(2)

1972 c. 68.

(3)

By virtue of section 162 of the Government of Wales Act 2006 (c. 32) and paragraphs 28 and 30 of Schedule 11 to that Act, the powers conferred upon the National Assembly for Wales by this designation are now exercisable by the Welsh Ministers.

(4)

Paragraph 1A of Schedule 2 was inserted by section 28 of the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Act 2006 (c. 51).