1 Background 4 Objectives and coverage 4
Download 325.19 Kb.
|
|
Vojtisek-Lom, M., Fenkl, M., Dufek, M., Mareš, J., 2009, Off-cycle, real-world emissions of modern light duty diesel vehicles. SAE International. Technical Papers 2009-24-0148. Weiss, M., Bonnel, P. Hummel, R., Manfredi, U., Colombo, R., Lanappe, G., Le Lijour, P., Sculati, M., 2011a, Analyzing on-road emissions of light-duty vehicles with Portable Emissions Measurement Systems (PEMS). JRC Technical and Scientific Report 62639, EUR 24697 EN. Ispra, Italy. Weiss, M., Bonnel, P., Hummel, R., Provenza, A., Manfredi, U., 2011b, On-road emissions of light-duty vehicles in Europe. Environmental Science & Technology 45, pp. 8575-8581. Weiss, M., Bonnel, P., Provenza, A., Lambrecht, U., Alessandrini, S., Carriero, M., Colombo, R., Forni, F., Kühlwein, J., Lanappe, G., Le Lijour, P., Manfredi, U., Montigny, F., Sculati, M., 2012, Will Euro 6 reduce the NOX emissions of new diesel cars in Europe? Insights from on-road tests with Portable Emissions Measurement Systems (PEMS). Atmospheric Environment 62, pp. 657-665. WHO, 2000, Air quality guidelines for Europe, World Health Organization, Regional Office for Europe, Copenhagen.(http://www.euro.who.int/__data/assets/pdf_file/0005/74732/E71922.pdf) accessed 4 September 2015. WHO, 2005, Effects of air pollution on children’s health and development – a review of the evidence, World Health Organization, Regional Office for Europe, Copenhagen. WHO, 2006a, Air Quality Guidelines. Global update 2005. Particulate matter, ozone, nitrogen dioxide and sulfur dioxide, World Health Organization, Regional Office for Europe, Copenhagen. WHO, 2006b, Health risks of particulate matter from long-range transboundary air pollution, World Health Organization, Regional Office for Europe, Copenhagen. WHO, 2008, Health risks of ozone from long-range transboundary air pollution, World Health Organization, Regional Office for Europe, Copenhagen. WHO, 2013a, Review of evidence on health aspects of air pollution — REVIHAAP Project, Technical Report, World Health Organization, Regional Office for Europe, Copenhagen. WHO, 2013b, Health risks of air pollution in Europe — HRAPIE project. New emerging risks to health from air pollution – results from the survey of experts, World Health Organization, Regional Office for Europe, Copenhagen. WHO, 2014a, Burden of disease from Ambient Air Pollution for 2012 — Summary of results, World Health Organization (http://www.who.int/phe/health_topics/outdoorair/databases/AAP_BoD_results_March2014.pdf) accessed 4 September 2015. WHO, 2014b, Ambient (outdoor) air quality and health, Fact sheet No 313, Updated March 2014, World Health Organization (http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs313/en/) accessed 4 September 2015. WHO, 2014c, Household fuel combustion - WHO Guidelines for Indoor Air Quality. World Health Organization, WHO Document Production Services, Geneva, Switzerland. WHO, 2015, Residential heating with wood and coal: health impacts and policy options in Europe and North America. World Health Organization, Regional Office for Europe, Copenhagen. WHO, 2016, European Detailed Mortality Database, update July 2016. Copenhagen, WHO Regional Office for Europe (http://data.euro.who.int/dmdb/). Accessed 25 July 2016 de Wit, H.A., Hettelingh, J.P., Harmens, H. (eds), 2015, Trends in ecosystem and health responses to long-range transported atmospheric pollutants. Topic group Effects of air pollution Geographical area Europe and North America Report No. 6946-2015 ICP Waters report 125/2015. 1() http://ec.europa.eu/environment/air/legis.htm? 2() Reporting on BC emissions is on a voluntary basis (EEA, 2016c). 3() Finland only reported BaP emissions for 2014, but did not report emissions from the commercial, institutional and household fuel combustion sector. 4() The daily limit value for PM10 was widely exceeded in Bulgaria, Italy, Poland, Slovakia, Czech Republic and the West Balkan collaborating countries (except Albania). In addition, it was exceeded in several stations in Croatia, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Portugal, Romania, Slovenia, Spain and Sweden; and in one station in Austria, Belgium, Cyprus and Malta. Only Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Ireland, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom did not record exceedances of this limit value in 2014. 5() These stations were located mainly in Bulgaria and Poland. There were several stations exceeding in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and the Czech Republic, 3 in Italy, 2 in Montenegro and one in Cyprus, France, Serbia, Slovakia and Spain. 6() Exceedances were observed at several stations in Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Italy and Poland, as well as one station in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. 7() Fixed sampling points in Europe are situated at four types of sites: traffic-related locations (“traffic”); urban and suburban background (non-traffic, non-industrial) locations (“urban”); industrial locations (or other less defined locations, “other”); and rural background sites (“rural”). 8() The series reported for three stations by Greece don´t reach the minimum data coverage of 75 % of valid data. Together with the other 25 Member States, also Norway and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia exceeded the WHO AQG for PM2.5 9() A consistent set of 839 stations with data for 2000 to 2014 was used for the trend analysis, with a minimum data coverage of 75 % of valid data per year, for at least 11 years of the 15-year period. Of these, 640 stations registered a significant trend using the Mann-Kendall test. 10() The period 2006 to 2014 was chosen to maximise the number of available stations for the trend analysis, which is a set of 214 stations in 24 countries. As routine monitoring of PM2.5 started in Europe during the first decade of this century, the limited dataset for the period 2000-2014 (58 stations in 12 countries) does not allow any conclusion on trends per country or per station type. However, the data set over this 15-year period suggests decreasing tendencies at traffic and rural stations. At urban stations, a more mixed pattern is found. 11() For the same consistent set of stations used in the trend analysis of PM10 in Chapter 4.2.2. 12() For the same consistent set of stations used in the trend analysis of PM2.5 in Chapter 4.2.2. 13() Austria, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Luxembourg, Malta, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia and Spain. 14() With data coverage equal to or above 75 % for all countries reporting O3 data to EEA, as shown in Map 5.1. 15() A consistent set of 1 088 stations with data for 2000 to 2014 was used in the trend analysis, with a minimum data coverage of 75 % of valid data per year, for at least 11 years of the 15-year period. Of these, only 41 % (447 stations) registered a significant trend, using the Mann-Kendall test. 16() Here a trend is called significant when the probability of having an upward or downward trend is 95%. 17() SOMO35 is the accumulated O3 concentration (daily maximum 8-hour) in excess of 35 parts per billion (ppb) (i.e. 70 μg/m3 for O3). 18() I.e. in 101 stations out of a total of 127 stations measuring benzene, of which 55 are urban or suburban traffic stations. 19() I.e. 35 stations measuring toluene, of which 22 are traffic stations. 20() Exceptions apply for the stations in the few air-quality zones for which the European Commission has granted a time extension for this limit value (http://ec.europa.eu/environment/air/quality/legislation/time_extensions.htm). 21() Austria, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Latvia, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, and the United Kingdom. 22() Spain (5 stations); Germany (3); and France, Hungary, Italy, Portugal, and the United Kingdom (1 station each). 23() Based on a consistent set of 1 261 stations with data for 2000 to 2014, with a minimum data coverage of 75 % of valid data per year, for at least 11 years of the 15-year period. 24() For more information, see discussion in ETC/ACM (2015). 25() A data coverage of 14 %, as required by the Air Quality Directive (EU, 2004) for indicative measurements, was used as a minimum requirement for the analysis of BaP data. 26() Based on a consistent set of 289 stations with data for 2007 to 2014, with a minimum data coverage of 14 % of valid data per year, for at least 6 years of the 8-year period. 27() The ‘lower assessment threshold’ is the level defined in the Ambient Air Quality Directives (EU, 2004; EU, 2008) below which modelling or objective-estimation techniques alone may be used to assess ambient air quality. 28() On the basis of reporting in earlier years and the fact that one of the stations with a reported exceedance was in the rural background, it is believed that these exceedances in Denmark are due to an error in the reported units (ng/m3 instead of μg/m3) for Pb concentrations. 29() In Belgium, Croatia, Cyprus, Finland, Germany, Ireland, Lithuania, Malta, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom. Furthermore, Austria, Finland, Germany, Hungary, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Poland, Slovenia, Spain and the United Kingdom have reported data of Hg in deposition. 30() The levels presented are based on measurements at all urban and suburban background stations with 75 % data coverage and are not based on a stable set of stations for the 3-year average. Figure 9.1 is therefore not necessarily based on the same set of stations as the countries use to report the average exposure indicator. 31() The studies in HRAPIE showed that for NO2 the size of the effect is less certain below 20 μg/m3. However, this recommendation might be too conservative. 32() These figures have the following CI (The CI gives the upper and lower boundary of the 95% confidence interval of the estimate taking only into account the uncertainty in the relative risk):
33() With the following CI:
34() Natura 2000 is an EU-wide network of nature protection areas (EEA, 2012) established under the 1992 Habitats Directive (EU, 1992). The aim of the network is to ensure the long-term survival of Europe’s most valuable and threatened species and habitats. 35() Several effects of damages to vegetation by ground-level ozone were described in the Air Quality in Europe – 2015 report (EEA, 2015a) 36() The 69 % of the agricultural area in exceedance occurred in summer 2006 with favourable meteorological conditions for O3 formation, resulting in exceptionally high concentrations (ETC/ACC, 2009a) 37() Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Denmark, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, the Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Slovenia and Spain. 38() 4 in Italy, and 1 in Croatia and the Netherlands. The rural background stations are taken as indicative of exposure of vegetation. Belgium, France, Greece and Switzerland didn´t report NOX data. 39() Bulgaria, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Poland, Romania, Serbia, and Spain Download 325.19 Kb. Share with your friends:
|