Air Quality Framework Directive

Keywords chemical air pollution policy European institutions, EU Air Quality Framework Directive, Long Range Transboundary Air Pollution Convention (CLRTAP), UNECE, 1999 Gothenburg Protocol, NEC Directive, linkages, interplay. 

Efforts to reduce transboundary air pollution have been undertaken in various multilateral and intragovemmental fora. The most comprehensive of these are the UNECE CLRTAP and two EU policies, the Air Quality Framework Directive and the National Emissions Ceilings Directive. By identifying linkages between these institutions, this chapter will examine how they have developed and impacted each other over the years. In doing so, this chapter will investigate past, present, and potential future trends in interplay between these agreements. 

Wettestad, J. and A. Farmer, forthcoming The EU Air Quality Framework Directive Shaped and Saved by Interaction in S. Oberthtir and T. Gehring, Institutional Interaction, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, p 241-259. 

Control (IPPC) License, (3) Restriction on Hazardous Substances Legislation, (4) Water Framework Directive, (5) Air Quality Framework Directive, (6) Strategic Environmental Assessment, (7) Wildlife and Habitats Legislation, (8) Kyoto Protocol, (9) Rio Declaration, (10) Tradable Permits, (11) Planning Laws, (12) Environmental Impact Statanent (ElS), and (13) Energy Use in Bnildings. Some of them are related to environmental engineering. 

The NPL testing facility is used to perform all the laboratory tests specified within the Environment Agency s MCERTS Scheme for CEM systems. This MCERTS Scheme is to be extended to cover ambient air quality monitoring instrumentation particularly that required within the EC Air Quality Framework and Daughter Directives, in the near future. 

Methodologies for air lead sampling and laboratory analysis are limited to specific reference methods officially prescribed to accommodate the fact that air lead analysis in the United States is directed to, among other purposes, compliance with an ambient air lead standard within the framework of State Implementation Plans (SIPs). SIPs are the regulatory and legal means by which the various states implement the nationally enacted ambient air lead standard. The details are discussed in such treatises as Chapter 4 of the 1986 U.S. EPA Air Quality Criteria for Lead document (U.S. EPA, 1986a) and Chapters 2 and 3 of U.S. EPA, 2006. The required reference methods for legal enforcement are codified in the CFRs (CFR, 1982, 40 58). 

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