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Identification
Reference COD/1999/0068  
Title Air pollution: ozone in ambient air, emission ceilings
Legal Basis EC 175-p1  
Dossier of the committee CODE/5/14846
Subject(s) 3.70.03 climate change, ozone
Stage reached Procedure ended
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Stages Documents: references Dates
Source reference Equivalent references Votes and amendments Joint resolution of document of publication in Official Journal
Commission/Council: initial legislative document Summaries EC COM(1999)0125           09/06/1999  
Document annexed to the procedure   EC SEC(1999)2004           29/11/1999  
Economic and Social Committee: opinion, report   ESC CES1118/1999           08/12/1999 C 051 23.02.2000, p. 0011
EP: draft report by the committee responsible   EP PE231.755           04/01/2000  
EP: decision of the committee responsible, 1st reading/single reading Summaries               24/02/2000  
EP: tabled legislative report, 1st reading or single reading   EP A5-0062/2000           24/02/2000 C 377 29.12.2000, p. 0005
EP: position, 1st reading or single reading Summaries EP T5-0101/2000           15/03/2000 C 377 29.12.2000, p. 0047-0154
Committee of the Regions: opinion   CofR CDR0358/1999           14/06/2000 C 317 06.11.2000, p. 0035
Commission: modified legislative proposal Summaries EC COM(2000)0613 C5-0498/2000         02/10/2000 C 029 30.01.2001, p. 0291 E
Council: common position Summaries CSL 13114/1/2000 C5-0090/2001         08/03/2001 C 126 26.04.2001, p. 0001
Commission: communication on the common position Summaries EC SEC(2001)0384           09/03/2001  
EP: decision of the committee responsible, 2nd reading Summaries               28/05/2001  
EP: tabled legislative report, 2nd reading   EP A5-0187/2001           28/05/2001  
EP: draft report by the committee responsible   EP PE301.055           30/05/2001  
EP: position, 2nd reading Summaries EP T5-0321/2001           13/06/2001 C 053 28.02.2002, p. 0132-0187 E
Commission: opinion on the EP position at second reading Summaries EC COM(2001)0476 C5-0377/2001         07/08/2001  
EP: tabled legislative report, 3rd reading   EP A5-0454/2001           23/10/2001  
EP/Council: Conciliation committee, results Summaries               22/11/2001  
EP/Council: joint text   CSL/EP 3658/2001 C5-0524/2001         22/11/2001  
EP: legislative resolution, 3rd reading Summaries EP T5-0006/2002           17/01/2002 C 271 07.11.2002, p. 0061-0153 E
Final legislative act Summaries EU 32002L0003           12/02/2002 L 067 09.03.2002, p. 0014-0030
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Davies Chris
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19/06/2001
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12/02/2002 - Final legislative act
AIM: To guarantee effective protection against the harmful effects on human health of exposure to ozone.
COMMUNITY MEASURE: European Parliament and Council Directive 2002/3/EC on ozone in ambient air.
CONTENT: Together with the directives on national emission ceilings for certain atmospheric pollutants and on the limitation of emissions of certain atmospheric pollutants into the air from large combustion plants, both of which were adopted on 27 September 2001, this directive completes a package of measures designed to improve air quality in accordance with the aims of framework directive 96/62/EC.
The mechanism established by Directive 2002/3/EC relates to concentrations of ozone in ambient air and the provision of adequate public information on these concentrations. It establishes an information threshold, an alert threshold (higher than the information threshold), target values and long-term aims with a view to preventing or reducing the harmful effects of ozone on human health and the environment.
When the mean ozone concentration rises above the information threshold of 180 grams per cubic metre (g/m3), measured over the course of one hour, which means that it could pose a risk to the health of particularly vulnerable sections of the population, the Member States will have to provide the public with updated information on current ozone concentrations.
When the alert threshold, i.e. a mean concentration of 240 g/m3 over a one-hour period (this threshold has hitherto been set at 360 g/m3), is exceeded or is liable to be exceeded, the Member States must advise the public of the situation and, where appropriate, take short-term measures to control and, if necessary, reduce or suspend certain activities that produce emissions. To this end, the Member States are to draw up action plans indicating the specific measures to be taken in the short term for particularly sensitive areas.
By 2010, the Member States must achieve the target values laid down in the directive for concentrations of ozone in ambient air, save where the values are not achievable through proportionate measures.
The ultimate goal is to stop exceeding these values so as to avoid harmful effects on human health and the environment in the long term. The target value for the protection of human health is 120 g/m3 (this has yet to be introduced as a prescribed target), which must not be exceeded on more than 25 days in any year. The target value for the protection of vegetation has been fixed at 18 000 g/m3.
The Directive also provides for long-term objectives, below which, according to current scientific knowledge, direct adverse effects on human health and the environment are unlikely. These objectives are 120 g/m3 for the protection of human health and 6 000 g/m3 for vegetation.
The Member States will have to measure ozone concentrations regularly and communicate the results of these measurements to the Commission. In order to take these measurements, each Member State is required to designate sampling points distributed throughout its territory.
ENTRY INTO FORCE: 9 March 2002.
IMPLEMENTATION: 9 September 2003.
 
List of summaries
Summaries 19/03/2004 Implementing legislative act
Summaries 12/02/2002 Final legislative act
Summaries 17/01/2002 EP: legislative resolution, 3rd reading
Summaries 22/11/2001 EP/Council: Conciliation committee, results
Summaries 07/08/2001 Commission: opinion on the EP position at second reading
Summaries 13/06/2001 EP: position, 2nd reading
Summaries 28/05/2001 EP: decision of the committee responsible, 2nd reading
Summaries 09/03/2001 Commission: communication on the common position
Summaries 08/03/2001 Council: common position
Summaries 02/10/2000 Commission: modified legislative proposal
Summaries 15/03/2000 EP: position, 1st reading or single reading
Summaries 24/02/2000 EP: decision of the committee responsible, 1st reading/single reading
Summaries 09/06/1999 Commission/Council: initial legislative document
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