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This section has details of developments to control and manage ambient
air quality across the UK, including European and international air quality
issues. This index page is arranged under the following headings:
Air quality information on other sites
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National Air
Quality Information Archive - this site provides up-to-date,
comprehensive, detailed information on air quality. Visit the
site to find out what air pollution is like near you and for a forecast
of what it will be like over the next 24 hours! The site is
also the national archive of air quality information and reports,
including detailed air quality monitoring data and statistics, plus
major sections on local air quality management and air quality research.
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National Atmospheric Emissions
Inventory *
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Information on ozone monitoring and science issues is at www.airquality.co.uk/archive/ozone
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A simple on-line questionnaire has been published at www.airquality.co.uk/archive/questionnaire/index.php
so that we can identify areas of the Air Quality Archive which may
be improved. The forms should only take 5-minutes to complete and
we would appreciate your views by Friday 12th March 2004. Results
of the survey will then be analysed and published on the Archive.
The site is continuously being improved from ongoing feedback which
we receive, so please make sure that any specific technical comments
are based on recent experience
* External websites managed for Defra by AEA Technology Limited.
Latest information
9 May 2006 - Initial review of air quality aspects of the Buncefield oil depot explosion. A news release has also been issued
5 April 2006 - Consultation on the review of the Air Quality Strategy – options for further improvements in air quality - deadline 11 July 2006. A news release has also been issued.
23 March 2006 - Beacon Scheme - delivering cleaner air
16 December 2005 - Large Combustion Plants Directive (LCPD)
New proposals for implementation of Directive and
Secretary of State Directions to Environment Agency in relation to opt out provision
7 November 2005 - Consultation on petrol vapour recovery stage II controls
3 November 2005: Consultation on draft UK report regarding plans and programmes to achieve limit values set by the first air quality daughter directive (2005 reporting year) Deadline 30 January 2006
14 September 2005: Defra Air Quality science
programme publications 2004-05
2 August 2005: Summary of responses published for: Consultation
on transposition of Directive 2004/42/CE limiting solvents in certain
paints and varnishes and vehicle refinishing products
1 April 2005: Consultation
on transposition of Directive 2004/42/CE limiting solvents in certain
paints and varnishes and vehicle refinishing products
31 March 2005: Addendum to Local
Air Quality Management Guidance - LAQM.PGA(05)
Air pollution information
Air quality strategy
Sets out health-based objectives for ambient air pollutants in the UK.
Recent material
Air quality strategy regulations
Earlier material
National Audit Office review
The National Audit Office used the development of the second Air Quality
Strategy to examine policy development processes of the former Department
of the Environment, Transport and the Regions (now Defra) - their report
is available on the NAO website.
Information leaflets and newsletters
Panels and fora
Local air quality issues
Industrial air pollution Issues
European and international issues
Negotiation and implementation of EU air quality directives and international
measures to control transboundary air pollution. Transposition of EU Directives
into national law.
Clean Air for Europe
The European Commission's Thematic Strategy on Air Pollution, and a proposal for a new Directive on Ambient Air Quality and Cleaner Air for Europe were published in September 2005. If agreed, the Directive would consolidate the existing Air Quality Framework Directive and the first three Daughter Directives. See the results of the initial RIA:
Publications
An annually updated list of all publications arising from the Defra Air
Quality science programme:
The National Expert Group on Transboundary Air Pollution was set up in
1998 to advise the Government on the impacts of air pollution on ecosystems.
Professor David Fowler of the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology in Edinburgh
chairs the group, and members include ecology and air pollution experts.
The group's report, "Transboundary Air Pollution: Acidification,
Eutrophication and Ground-level Ozone in the UK" was published in
December 2001. The report is available at www.nbu.ac.uk/negtap
and in printed form upon request from air.quality@defra.gsi.gov.uk.
At the same time, a leaflet 'United Kingdom Acid Waters Monitoring Network'
was published, summarising the findings of the monitoring network in its
12 year history. The Network monitors the chemical and biological condition
of 22 lakes and streams in the UK affected by acid rain. Results over
the 12 year period show that improvements in water quality and in some
aquatic species have begun, as a result of in reductions in acid rain.
The leaflet is available on the Network's website, together with more
information on the sites and measurements: www.ukawmn.ucl.ac.uk.
Contacting Defra
If you want further information that is not covered by these pages, you
can contact us by email at air.quality@defra.gsi.gov.uk.
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