Sentence examples for air quality directives from inspiring English sources

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.

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.

The EU environment commissioner, Janez Potocnik, has singled out Britain for its "persistent" breaches of the 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.

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.

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.

Heathrow breaches the EU air quality directive for a number of pollutants, but nitrogen dioxide is the most intractable as local traffic and congestion is bound to increase in line with passenger numbers.

The government has fended off the threat of £300m in fines over air pollution in London after the European commission put on hold infringement proceedings by granting the UK a time extension to meet a key air quality directive, subject to an emergency action plan.

In May, CAL made a Freedom of Information request, asking "What the Mayor of London and/or GLA is doing to influence directly or indirectly the future shape of the revised Air Quality Directive" and seeking any relevant information produced in the previous two years.