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Several directives on air quality entered into
force recently or will be adopted soon. Sound implementation of
legislation by the Member States is a basic requirement for the
effectiveness of EU policy in this area.
Within the Communication by the Commission
(COM(2001) 245 final), the following objective of CAFE was
identified among others
- to support the implementation and review the effectiveness of
existing legislation, in particular the air quality daughter
directives (1999/30/EC, 2000/69/EC and the forthcoming directive
on ozone), the decision on exchange of information (97/101/EC),
and national emission ceilings as set out in recent legislation,
...
Currently, a Guidance Report on Preliminary
Assessment under Article 5 and another one on Assessment under
Article 6 of directive 96/62/EC are available.
At its first meeting on 18 May 2001 the CAFE
Steering Group expressed its view that further guidance would be
needed in the course of implementation. Participants of the Workshop
"Meeting the Limit Values" held at Bruges on 17 and 18
September 2001 supported this view. Giving regard to this the
Commission decided to set up a Working Group on Implementation
consisting of representatives from stakeholders.
Terms of Reference for a Working Group on
Implementation
The task of the working group is to support
harmonised implementation of the air quality frame work directive,
its daughter directives and the directive on national emission
ceilings by Member States.
The working group will
- identify and make an inventory of existing problems of Member
States in implementing the mentioned legislation;
- develop, as appropriate, specific guidance to support Member
States in implementing the relevant legislation;
- investigate possibilities to streamline and harmonise
reporting required within the air quality frame work directives,
its daughter directives and the directive on national emission
ceilings;
- give regard to particular problems in Accession Candidate
Countries in implementing the Aquis.
The Working Group will regularly report to the
CAFE Steering Group. Following the progress of implementation in
Member States the Steering Group shall revise or update these terms
of reference if appropriate.
Work Items
The Working Group intends
- to inquire fields of potential problems/disharmony in
implementing air quality legislation within Member States;
- to outline - where necessary - formats for reporting on
air quality and national emission ceilings as referred to in
directive 96/62/EC and article 8 of the directive on national
emission ceilings;
- to formulate recommendations on structure and contents on
plans and programmes to be drafted under article 8 of directive
96/62/EC and article 6 of the directive on national emission
ceilings;
- to formulate recommendations on action plans to be drafted
under article 7 of directive 96/62/EC;
- to provide guidance on the air quality monitoring and
assessment strategy, taking into account representativity of
monitoring sites and the spatial resolution to be applied when
assessing air quality, in particular on the hot spot problem
(industrial and traffic related) and assessment of vegetation
and ecosystem LV;
- to develop guidance for the application of models for the
assessment and the projection of air quality and for the
determination of uncertainty.
Guidance Notes
Disclaimer
The recommendations given by the Working Group aim at supporting
Member States in implementing the legislation on air quality. However
only the text of the directives or other Community legislation is
authentic in law. Accordingly, the text of the directives or other
Community legislation is applicable where there are differences
between the provisions there and the contents of the recommendations
given here.
Working group meetings:
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