Coal

Environmental Legislation

Community environmental legislation and proposals that may impact upon the use of coal:

|Overview

|Climate change

|Co-Generation

|Emissions

|Mercury

|Waste

Emissions

• Directive concerning integrated pollution prevention and control
   
• Directive on national emission ceilings for certain atmospheric pollutants
   
• Directive on the limitation of emissions of certain pollutants into the air from large combustion plants
   
• Recommendation to assist Member states in preparing a national emission reduction plan in conformity with the directive on the limitation of certain pollutants into the air from large combustion plants 
          (184 KB)
   
• Protocol to the 1979 convention on long-range transboundary air pollution on further reduction of sulphur emissions