The phrase "air quality directive" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to regulations or guidelines aimed at improving or monitoring air quality.
Example: "The government has implemented the air quality directive to ensure cleaner air for all citizens."
Alternatives: "air quality regulation" or "air quality standard".
The EU environment commissioner, Janez Potocnik, has singled out Britain for its "persistent" breaches of the air quality directive.
The European commission has begun a comprehensive review of existing laws that could lead within a year to changes in the 2008 air quality directive.
Khan, the MP for Tooting, said: "The UK supreme court two months ago held that our air was in breach of the EU air quality directive.
On air quality, the committee noted concerns that the commission's interpretation of the EU air quality directive implied that significant increases in nitrogen dioxide (NO2) resulting from Heathrow expansion would be allowable due to worse performance elsewhere in London.
I suspect the reason that Theresa May has delayed a parliamentary vote on Heathrow (Report, 19 October) is to give the UK parliament time to invoke article 50, and repeal the relevant EU air quality directive.
In December 2014, for example, the EFTA Surveillance Authority decided to take Norway to its court for a breach of the EU's Air Quality Directive, following a complaint by the Norwegian Asthma and Allergy Association.
Protection of children's health is part of the basis for a joint declaration by scientists of the International Society for Environmental Epidemiology and the European Respiratory Society, presented at the meeting, which calls for European Union authorities to strengthen proposed air quality directives.
However, in Italy air pollution levels have decreased in recent years thanks to EU air quality Directives [ 30], a reduction in the number of older and polluting cars, as well as a decline in daily use of transportation by car in response to the economic crisis.
"Many measures have already been put in place and we consider that the measures in these plans will improve air quality sufficiently to achieve compliance with the directive in London before 2025".
The evaluation of the high percentiles of concentration distributions is required by most national air quality guidelines, as well as the EU directives.
Environ Health Perspect 121 1026 1033; http://dx.doi.org/10.1289/ehp.1206151 The European air quality standards are under revision, and a new directive will be delivered by the European Union (EU) in the next few years.
