The Air Quality Standards (Wales) Regulations 2007

General requirements

21.—(1) The National Assembly must ensure that—

(a) up-to-date information is made available to the public in accordance with this Part; and

(b) the public is given an opportunity to participate in the formulation of improvement plans in accordance with regulation 28.

(2) The National Assembly must ensure that the information to which this Part relates is—

(a) made available in a form that is clear, comprehensible and accessible;

(b) disseminated or published by the most appropriate means as it may determine, including (but not necessarily limited to) broadcast media, press, publications, information screens, the internet or other computer network sources; and

(c) up-dated—

(i) in accordance with a minimum frequency specified in these Regulations, or

(ii) in other cases, as soon as practicable.

(3) For the purposes of this Part, “the public” means natural or legal persons, including health-care bodies and other organisations having an interest in ambient air quality and representing the interests of sensitive populations, consumers and the environment.