The New Directive on Ambient Air Quality Assessment and Management - European Energy and Environmental Law Review View The New Directive on Ambient Air Quality Assessment and Management by Jürgen G J Lefevere - European Energy and Environmental Law Review The New Directive on Ambient Air Quality Assessment and Management Jürgen G J Lefevere 6 7

A review of existing Community legislation on air quality; problems arising out of the earlier directives, leading to the new directive; its objectives; its framework nature; substances covered; timetable for daughter directives; factors to be taken into account when setting limit values, target values and alert thresholds; other provisions; critical comments - application of the subsidiarity principle, the removal of the "standstill" clause, desirability of setting uniform quality objectives, duties to inform the public, cross-border aspects; conclusion that the new directive is more of a harmonizing than an innovative measure and that anything more radical will have to come from the daughter directives.

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