Tuesday 20 February, at the end of the last one political trilogue scheduled before the suspension of the European Parliament's activities in view of the next elections, was reached a provisional agreement on proposal for the 'updating of directive on air quality.
Le three European institutions, the Commission, the Council and the Parliament, they managed to find a agreement on a text which includes some compromise solutions between the initially quite distant positions of Parliament and Council on the most strategic provisions.
La proposal di directive establishes standard di air quality more ambitious of those currently in force and reorganizes the provisions on evaluation, to make it more coherent in all the countries of the Union and enrich it with additional information.
For the two pollutants more critical, PM2,5 and NO2, limit values annual they will be more than halved, going from 25 µg/m³ to 10 µg/m³ and from 40 µg/m³ to 20 µg/m³ respectively.
The provisional agreement also provides for the possibility, For Member states, to request a postponement of the dates for achievement of the new values limit, for specific reasons and to rigorous conditions.
Strengthen le standards related toinformation of the population, with a particular caution category more fragile, and access to justice.
Il new text will Now be formally approved da Parliament e National, before its adoption.