· Web view{ENVI}Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety 2020/2091(INI)

European Parliament2019-2024

Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety

2020/2091(INI)

11.2.2021

AMENDMENTS1 - 231Draft reportJavi López(PE663.232v01-00)

Implementation of the Ambient Air Quality Directives: Directive 2004/107/EC and Directive 2008/50/EC(2020/2091(INI))

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Amendment 1Anna ZalewskaMotion for a resolutionCitation 6 a (new)

Motion for a resolution Amendment

- having regard to Commission Implementing Decision 2011/850/EU of 12 December 2011 laying down rules for Directives 2004/107/EC and 2008/50/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards the reciprocal exchange of information and reporting on ambient air quality,

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Amendment 2Anna ZalewskaMotion for a resolutionCitation 9


— having regard to the Commission proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing the framework for achieving climate neutrality and amending Regulation (EU) 2018/1999 (European Climate Law) (COM(2020)0080),

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Amendment 3Javi LópezMotion for a resolutionCitation 11 a (new)


- having regard to the Report from the Commission to the European Parliament, the Council, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions on the second clean air outlook (COM(2021)3final),

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Amendment 4Anna ZalewskaMotion for a resolutionCitation 12


— having regard to its resolution of 28 November 2019 on the climate and environment emergency1,

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_________________1 Texts adopted, P9_TA(2019)0078.

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Amendment 5Sylvia Limmer, Catherine Griset, Aurélia Beigneux, Joëlle MélinMotion for a resolutionCitation 17 a (new)


- having regard to the communication from the German Federal Environment Agency of 10.2.2020 on the development of air quality in Germany from 1995 to 2019: https://www.umweltbundesamt.de/themen/luft/daten-karten/entwicklung-der-luftqualitaet#entwicklung-der-luftqualitat-in-Deutschland,

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Amendment 6Sven GiegoldMotion for a resolutionCitation 17 a (new)


- having regard to the European Commission’s report to the European Parliament, the Council, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions, “Second Clean Air Outlook” COM(2021) 3 final of 8

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January 2021,

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Amendment 7Anna ZalewskaMotion for a resolutionCitation 17 a (new)


- having regard to the programmes of the Member States, such as Poland's 'Clean Air' programme of September 2018,

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Amendment 8Sylvia Limmer, Catherine Griset, Aurélia Beigneux, Joëlle MélinMotion for a resolutionCitation 17 b (new)


- having regard to the Commission press release of 23.11.2020 entitled 'Marked improvement in Europe's air quality over past decade, fewer deaths linked to pollution', https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_20_2168,

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Amendment 9Sven GiegoldMotion for a resolutionCitation 17 b (new)


- having regard to the study “Sampling points for air quality - Representativeness and comparability of measurement in accordance with Directive 2008/50/EC on ambient air quality and cleaner air for Europe” by the European Parliament Policy Department for Economic, Scientific and Quality of

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Life Policies for the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety,

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Amendment 10Sylvia Limmer, Catherine Griset, Aurélia Beigneux, Joëlle MélinMotion for a resolutionCitation 17 c (new)


- having regard to the study entitled 'Abrupt but smaller than expected changes in surface air quality attributable to COVID-19 lockdowns', published on 13.01.2021 in Science Advances, Vol. 7, No 3, eabd6696, DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abd6696, https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/7/3/eabd6696,

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Amendment 11Sven GiegoldMotion for a resolutionCitation 17 c (new)


- having regard to the European Commission Roadmap for the Inception Impact Assessment for the revision of the AAQ Directives,

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Amendment 12Sven GiegoldMotion for a resolutionCitation 17 d (new)


- having regard to the European health and safety at work policy, in particular to the European Commission Communication “Safer and Healthier

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Work for All” of 10 January 2017, and to Directive 2004/37/EC on the protection of workers from the risks related to exposure to carcinogens or mutagens at work,

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Amendment 13Sylvia Limmer, Catherine Griset, Aurélia Beigneux, Joëlle MélinMotion for a resolutionCitation 17 d (new)


- having regard to Eurostat's statistics on life expectancy in the Member States, published annually since 1992: https://bit.ly/3pV2iRY,

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Amendment 14Sven GiegoldMotion for a resolutionCitation 17 e (new)


- having regard to the Commission Communication of 14 October 2020 “an EU strategy to reduce methane emissions”,

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Amendment 15Sven GiegoldMotion for a resolutionCitation 17 f (new)


- having regard to the Directive 2010/75/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 24 November 2010 on industrial emissions,

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Amendment 16

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Sven GiegoldMotion for a resolutionCitation 17 g (new)


- having regard to the European Commission Communication of 14 October 2020 on the “Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability” (2020/2531(RSP)) as well as the European Parliament resolution of 10 July on the Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability,

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Amendment 17Sven GiegoldMotion for a resolutionCitation 17 h (new)


- having regard to the WHO Resolution of 26 May 2016 “Health and the environment: addressing the health impact of air pollution”,

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Amendment 18Sylvia Limmer, Catherine Griset, Aurélia Beigneux, Joëlle MélinMotion for a resolutionRecital A


A. whereas clean air is essential to human health and the environment, and has been identified as a global health priority in the SDGs;

A. whereas clean air is important for human health and the environment;

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Amendment 19Anna ZalewskaMotion for a resolutionRecital A


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A. whereas clean air is essential to human health and the environment, and has been identified as a global health priority in the SDGs;

A. whereas clean air is essential to human health and quality of life, and to the environment, and has been identified as a global health priority in the SDGs;

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Amendment 20Antoni Comín i OliveresMotion for a resolutionRecital A a (new)


A a. whereas air pollution is transboundary in nature, but in many cases the harmful effects of poor air quality become a local problem;

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Amendment 21Sylvia Limmer, Catherine Griset, Aurélia Beigneux, Joëlle MélinMotion for a resolutionRecital B


B. whereas air pollution is the single largest environmental health risk in Europe2, affecting all regions, socioeconomic and age groups unevenly, causing nearly 400 000 premature deaths per year, and is linked to respiratory and cardiovascular diseases, strokes and cancer3;

B. whereas air pollutants have an essentially negative impact on our health, and it is irresponsible and frivolous of the European Environment Agency (EEA) to talk about 400 000 premature deaths each year,3 as there are not 400 000 death certificates a year noting 'death caused by air pollution' and no figures or verifiable statistics to back this up; such statements are based on estimates or indirect calculations, so that it would be expedient to rely on evidence-based facts;

_________________ _________________2 ‘Ambient Air Pollution: A global assessment of exposure and burden of disease’, World Health Organization, 2016.3 ‘Air quality in Europe - 2020’, Report No. 09/20, European Environment

3 ‘Air quality in Europe - 2020’, Report No 09/20, European Environment

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Agency, 2020. Agency, 2020. This is analogous to the conclusions of the World Health Organization - the methodology of which is also open to question - which assumes a figure of 3 million premature deaths worldwide as a result of poor air quality in 2012: Cf. 'Ambient Air Pollution: A global assessment of exposure and burden of disease (Air pollution: A global assessment of exposure and burden of disease'), World Health Organization, 2016, pp 11, 15, 40, 46 and 49.

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Amendment 22Anna ZalewskaMotion for a resolutionRecital B


B. whereas air pollution is the single largest environmental health risk in Europe2, affecting all regions, socioeconomic and age groups unevenly, causing nearly 400 000 premature deaths per year, and is linked to respiratory and cardiovascular diseases, strokes and cancer3;

B. whereas air pollution is the single largest environmental health risk in Europe2, affecting all regions, socioeconomic and age groups unevenly; whereas, according to some assessments, it causes nearly 400 000 premature deaths per year, and is linked to respiratory and cardiovascular diseases, strokes and cancer3, but whereas the figures are only an approximation;

_________________ _________________2 ‘Ambient Air Pollution: A global assessment of exposure and burden of disease’, World Health Organization, 2016.

2 ‘Ambient Air Pollution: A global assessment of exposure and burden of disease’, World Health Organization, 2016.

3 ‘Air quality in Europe - 2020’, Report No. 09/20, European Environment Agency, 2020.


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Amendment 23Michal Wiezik, Stanislav PolčákMotion for a resolutionRecital B


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B. whereas air pollution is the single largest environmental health risk in Europe2 , affecting all regions, socioeconomic and age groups unevenly, causing nearly 400 000 premature deaths per year, and is linked to respiratory and cardiovascular diseases, strokes and cancer3 ;

B. whereas air pollution is the single largest environmental health risk in Europe2 , affecting all regions, socioeconomic and age groups unevenly, causing nearly 400 000 premature deaths per year, and is linked to respiratory and cardiovascular diseases, strokes and cancer3 ,with recent studies associating air pollution also with dementia1a, child brain structural alterations and cognitive impairment2a, and diabetes mortality3a ;

_________________ _________________1a Chen, H. et al. Living near major roads and the incidence of dementia, Parkinson’s disease, and multiple sclerosis: a population based cohort study 389, 718–726 (2017).


2 ‘Ambient Air Pollution: A global assessment of exposure and burden of disease’, World Health Organization, 2016.2a Guxens, M. et al. Air Pollution Exposure During Fetal Life, Brain Morphology, and Cognitive Function in School-Age Children.Biological Psychiatry 1–9 (2018).


3 ‘Air quality in Europe - 2020’, Report No. 09/20, European Environment Agency, 2020.3a Lim, C. C. et al. Association between long-term exposure to ambient air pollution and diabetes mortality in the US. Environmental research 165, 330–336 (2018)

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Amendment 24Sven GiegoldMotion for a resolutionRecital B


B. whereas air pollution is the single largest environmental health risk in Europe2 , affecting all regions, socioeconomic and age groups unevenly,

B. whereas air pollution is the single largest environmental health risk in Europe2 , affecting all regions, socioeconomic and age groups unevenly,

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causing nearly 400 000 premature deaths per year, and is linked to respiratory and cardiovascular diseases, strokes and cancer3 ;

causing nearly 400 000 premature deaths per year, and is linked to respiratory and cardiovascular diseases, strokes and cancer3 ; whereas air pollution has also adverse impacts on fertility, pregnancy, newborns and children, and there is emerging evidence of links between air pollution and diabetes, obesity, systemic inflammation, Alzheimer’s disease and dementia; whereas 98 % of the EU’s urban population is exposed to ozone levels that exceed WHO guidelines; whereas 77 % of the EU-28 population is exposed to PM2.5 levels above WHO guidelines3a;

_________________ _________________2 ‘Ambient Air Pollution: A global assessment of exposure and burden of disease’, World Health Organization, 2016.



3 ‘Air quality in Europe - 2020’, Report No. 09/20, European Environment Agency, 2020.3a Air quality in Europe - 2020, Report 9/20, European Environment Agency, 2020.

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Amendment 25Norbert Lins, Stefan BergerMotion for a resolutionRecital B


B. whereas air pollution is the single largest environmental health risk in Europe2 , affecting all regions, socioeconomic and age groups unevenly, causing nearly 400 000 premature deaths per year, and is linked to respiratory and cardiovascular diseases, strokes and cancer3 ;

B. whereas air pollution is the single largest environmental health risk in Europe2 , affecting all regions, socioeconomic and age groups unevenly, causing nearly 400 000 premature deaths per year, and is linked to respiratory and cardiovascular diseases, strokes and cancer3 ; whereas, overall, premature deaths from air pollution have dropped by more than 50 percent since 1990; 4a

_________________ _________________2 ‘Ambient Air Pollution: A global 2 ‘Ambient Air Pollution: A global

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assessment of exposure and burden of disease’, World Health Organization, 2016.

assessment of exposure and burden of disease’, World Health Organization, 2016.


3 ‘Air quality in Europe - 2020’, Report No. 09/20, European Environment Agency, 2020.4a https://www.eea.europa.eu/themes/air/health-impacts-of-air-pollution

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Amendment 26João FerreiraMotion for a resolutionRecital B a (new)


Ba. whereas it is important and advisable to review and carefully assess the implementation of the two Ambient Air Quality (AAQ) directives, bearing in mind that the effectiveness of any new measures adopted could be seriously undermined by failure to evaluate the provisions of Directive (EU) 2016/2284 (establishing national emission reduction commitments, especially with regard to SO2, NOx, VOCs, NH3 and PM2.5 ), as well as the various EU legislative provisions regulating air pollution from specific sources such as the industry and transport sectors, in other words by failure to ensure that air quality is properly prioritised and integrated into all EU legislation, including that relating to energy, transport, trade, agriculture and other emission sources;

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Amendment 27Javi LópezMotion for a resolutionRecital B a (new)


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B a. whereas the most recent EEA estimates of the health impacts attributable to exposure to air pollution indicate that in 2018 particulate matter 2.5 (PM2.5) concentrations were responsible for about 379 000 premature deaths originating from long-term exposure in the EU-28; whereas the estimated impacts in the EU of exposure to NO2 and O3 concentrations in 2018 were around 54 000 and 19 400 premature deaths per year respectively1a;

_________________1a ‘Air quality in Europe - 2020’, Report No. 09/20, European Environment Agency, 2020.

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Amendment 28Frédérique Ries, Martin Hojsík, Nils Torvalds, María Soraya Rodríguez RamosMotion for a resolutionRecital B a (new)


B a. whereas “the Lancet Planet Health" published a study on 19 January 2021 on the assessment of the impact of air pollution on mortality in almost thousand cities in Europe, whereas it was found that the top 10 cities where the effects of automobile pollution due to NO2 are the least perceptible are made up exclusively of northern European cities;

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Amendment 29Anna ZalewskaMotion for a resolutionRecital B a (new)


Ba. whereas air quality challenges vary widely depending on where they occur; whereas the main source of problems can be, for example, heating

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systems in poorer countries or transport in richer countries; whereas these challenges are also affected by natural factors such as topography;

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Amendment 30Norbert Lins, Christine Schneider, Jens Gieseke, Ulrike Müller, Marlene Mortler, Stefan Berger, Andreas GlückMotion for a resolutionRecital B a (new)


B a. whereas there is a general improvement trend in air quality despite economic growth; whereas both road transport and industry have played a role in this process; whereas there is a positive trend as regards practical implementation of Member States’ obligation;

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Amendment 31Sven GiegoldMotion for a resolutionRecital B a (new)


B a. whereas air pollution has major negative impacts on ecosystems and is currently responsible for about two-thirds of ecosystem area in the EU being exposed to eutrophication;

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Amendment 32Sylvia Limmer, Catherine Griset, Aurélia Beigneux, Joëlle MélinMotion for a resolutionRecital B a (new)


Ba. whereas happily, life expectancy has risen everywhere in the EU in recent decades3a;

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_________________3a Cf. Eurostat statistics on life expectancy in the Member States: https://bit.ly/3pV2iRY

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Amendment 33Antoni Comín i OliveresMotion for a resolutionRecital B a (new)


B a. whereas the regulation of air quality is one of nature’s contribution to people, considered an environmental service;

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Amendment 34Sylvia Limmer, Catherine Griset, Aurélia Beigneux, Joëlle MélinMotion for a resolutionRecital B b (new)


Bb. whereas air is a mixtures of gases in the earth's atmosphere, with dry air comprising chiefly nitrogen (around 78.08% vol) and oxygen (around 20.95% vol), together with argon (0.93% vol), carbon dioxide (0.04% vol) and traces of other gases; whereas solid and liquid particles known as aerosols are also components of air; whereas water and water vapour comprise 0.4% vol of the whole of the earth's atmosphere; whereas air also contains dust and biological particles (e.g. pollen, fungal and fern spores, bacteria and viruses); whereas all the above makes it difficult to define the precise composition of 'clean' air;

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Amendment 35Norbert Lins, Christine Schneider, Jens Gieseke, Ulrike Müller, Marlene Mortler,

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Stefan Berger, Andreas GlückMotion for a resolutionRecital B b (new)


B b. whereas for the last 29 years (1990 to 2018) the EU recorded reductions in emissions of all air pollutants; whereas the biggest fall was reported for sulphur oxides (SOx)which decreased by 90%, followed by non-methane volatile organic compounds(NMVOC) and nitrous oxides (NOx), which declined roughly by 60 % and 55 % respectively; whereas emissions of fine particulate matter (PM2.5) decreased by almost half since the year 1990. and ammonia (NH3) emissions by roughly one quarter1a;

_________________1a www.ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php?title=Air_pollution_statistics_-_emission_inventories&oldid=403107

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Amendment 36Frédérique Ries, Martin Hojsík, Nils Torvalds, María Soraya Rodríguez RamosMotion for a resolutionRecital B b (new)


B b. whereas a recent decision of a local court ruled that the government of Brussels Region, where the European institutions are based, is legally forced within six months to place air quality measuring systems on the busiest roads, such as “rue de la loi”, that must measure the concentration of nitrogen dioxide, course particulate matter (known as PM10) and fine particulate matter (PM2.5);

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Sven GiegoldMotion for a resolutionRecital B b (new)


B b. whereas air pollution has significant human and economic costs; whereas the benefits of measures for cleaner air always override the costs; whereas, according to EU Commission estimations, the full implementation of existing EU clean air legislation could lead to net benefits of up to 42 billion EUR a year by 2030, notably from avoided mortality and morbidity1a;

_________________1a Support to the development of the Second Clean Air Outlook, Specific Contract 6 under Framework Contract ENV.C.3/FRA/2017/0012, Final Report.

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Amendment 38Anna ZalewskaMotion for a resolutionRecital B b (new)


Bb. whereas in some places, especially in countries in the eastern part of the European Union, district heating can be a good alternative to dispersed and highly inefficient individual heating sources, which account for a large proportion of air pollution containing substances that are dangerous to health;

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Amendment 39Javi LópezMotion for a resolutionRecital B b (new)


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B b. whereas there is evidence that exposure to air pollution could affect health outcomes of COVID-19, principally through damage to the respiratory and immune system and the expression of proteins that enable the virus to enter cells;

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Amendment 40Javi LópezMotion for a resolutionRecital B c (new)


B c. whereas air pollution leads to environmental degradation and has significant adverse effects on the natural ecosystems and biodiversity - including eutrophication, acidification and damage to vegetation from ground-level ozone, the quality of water and soil and the ecosystem services they support -, as well as on the climate and can damage the built environment and cultural heritage; whereas the air pollutants that currently cause most damage to ecosystems are O3, ammonia and nitrogen oxides(NOX); whereas these effects have considerable market and non-market costs, such as reducing life expectancy, increasing medical costs, reducing labour productivity, degradation of ecosystems, biodiversity loss and climate change;

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Amendment 41Anna ZalewskaMotion for a resolutionRecital B c (new)


Bc. whereas some comprehensive programmes for addressing the problem of air quality are in their early stages, such as the 'Clean Air' programme in

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Poland, which was launched in September 2018;

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Amendment 42Sven GiegoldMotion for a resolutionRecital B c (new)


B c. whereas the majority of the EU population finds public action to promote good air quality to be insufficient, and over 70% of the EU population expects the EU to propose additional measures1a;

_________________1a Commission Staff Working Document Fitness Check of the Ambient Air Quality Directives (SWD(2019) 427 final) of 28 November 2019

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Amendment 43Norbert Lins, Christine Schneider, Jens Gieseke, Ulrike Müller, Marlene Mortler, Stefan Berger, Andreas GlückMotion for a resolutionRecital B c (new)


B c. whereas there was a significant reduction of all air pollutants in road transport despite an increase in passenger and freight transport1a;

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Amendment 44Sven GiegoldMotion for a resolutionRecital B d (new)


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B d. whereas, while the EU outdoor air quality policy framework is well structured, EU legislation covering indoor air quality is fragmented; whereas a more holistic EU policy approach to air pollution may be needed, guaranteeing that ambient air quality, health and safety at work, chemical and buildings legislation are fully coherent and mutually reinforcing in particular to ensure the safety of workers and citizens from hazardous substances in consumer products, such as textiles and cleaning materials;

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Amendment 45Javi LópezMotion for a resolutionRecital B d (new)


B d. whereas high levels of O3 damage plant cells, impairing plants' reproduction and growth, thereby reducing agricultural crop yields, forest growth and biodiversity; whereas changing climatic conditions and the increase in emissions of carbon dioxide(CO2) and other pollutants, such as reactive nitrogen, modify the responses of vegetation to O3; whereas these modifiers influence the amount of O3 taken up by leaves, thus altering the magnitude of effects on plant growth, crop yields and ecosystem services;

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Amendment 46Anna ZalewskaMotion for a resolutionRecital B d (new)


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Bd. whereas, given the scale of proceedings initiated by the Commission against Member States for air quality violations, aligning the indicators in the Directive more closely with WHO indices will not improve air quality, but only increase the scale of infringements; whereas the current situation calls instead for countries to be given more support (technological, logistical and financial support and guidelines) to improve the implementation of existing legislation;

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Amendment 47Javi LópezMotion for a resolutionRecital B e (new)


B e. whereas the deposition of nitrogen compounds, emitted to the air as nitrogen oxides (NOx)and ammonia (NH3), can cause eutrophication, an oversupply of nutrients; whereas similarly to sulphur compounds, nitrogen compounds also have acidifying effects; whereas both eutrophication and acidification can affect terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems and may lead to changes in species diversity and invasions by new species; whereas acidification may also lead to increased mobilisation of toxic metals in water or soils, which increases the risk of uptake in the food chain;

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Amendment 48Anna ZalewskaMotion for a resolutionRecital B e (new)


Be. whereas improving air quality also entails changes in the mentality of society that cannot be easily achieved through

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changes in law, but rather through campaigns to raise awareness that changes, for example to heating or transport systems, although involving a high financial outlay will bring both health and financial benefits in the long term;

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Amendment 49Javi LópezMotion for a resolutionRecital B f (new)


B f. whereas toxic metal pollutants, such as lead (Pb), mercury (Hg) and cadmium (Cd), can cause harmful effects in plants and animals, in addition to humans and although their atmospheric concentrations may be low, they still contribute to the deposition and build-up of toxic metals in soils, sediments and organisms; whereas toxic metals, and persistent organic compounds (POPs), in addition to their environmental toxicity, tend to bioaccumulate in animals and plants and to biomagnify, implying that concentrations in the tissues of organisms increase at successively higher levels in the food chain;

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Amendment 50Javi LópezMotion for a resolutionRecital B g (new)


B g. whereas urban population is the most exposed to air pollution, and only one person in ten lives in a city that complies with the World Health Organization (WHO) Air Quality Guidelines1a; whereas nowadays urban and peri-urban areas account for 75% of

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the EU’s population1b;

_________________1a ‘Ambient air pollution: A global assessment of exposure and burden of disease’, World Health Organization, 20161b ‘Red Cities - Our vision for fair and sustainable city development’, Party of European Socialists, 2021

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Amendment 51Javi LópezMotion for a resolutionRecital B h (new)


B h. whereas road traffic is the major source responsible for air pollution in urban areas because of the emissions from vehicles with internal combustion engines (exhaust traffic related emissions), and also brake and tyre wear (non-exhaust traffic related emissions); whereas the 2020 Air Quality Report published by the European Environment Agency (EEA) estimated that road transport continued to be the primary source of NOx emissions in theEU-28 in 2018, representing around 40 % of total EU NOx emissions; whereas, in particular, diesel vehicles are responsible for around 75% of the total air pollution costs related to road transport in the Union;

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Amendment 52Javi LópezMotion for a resolutionRecital B i (new)


B i. whereas the cost of air pollution to society, health and economic activities in

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Europe amounts to between €330 and 940 billion per year as a whole, but the cost of all measures that result in air quality improvements amounts to €70 to 80 billion per year1a; whereas the cost of inaction, with the harmful impacts of air pollution on citizens health, the economy and society, exceeds by far the cost of action, involving various policy measures;

_________________1a ‘EU policy on air quality: implementation of selected legislation’, European Parliamentary Research Service, 2021, page 26

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Amendment 53Javi LópezMotion for a resolutionRecital B j (new)


B j. whereas agriculture is the third biggest source of primary PM10 emissions in the EU, as stressed by the European Environment Agency; whereas ammonia (NH3) emissions from agriculture contribute to episodes of high PM concentrations experienced across Europe each spring, as well as to both short- and long-term negative health impacts1a;

_________________1a https://www.eea.europa.eu/data-and-maps/indicators/emissions-of-primary-particles-and-5/assessment-3

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Amendment 54Javi LópezMotion for a resolutionRecital B k (new)


B k. whereas methane emissions from

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agriculture are an important precursor to ground-level ozone, which has adverse effects on human health; whereas 98 % of the EU’s urban population is exposed to ozone levels exceeding WHO guidelines;

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Amendment 55Javi LópezMotion for a resolutionRecital B l (new)


B l. whereas coal and lignite plants significantly contribute to mercury emissions in the EU and 62% of mercury emissions from EU industry come from coal-fired power plants; whereas mercury is a dangerous neurotoxin which is damaging to the nervous system at even relatively low levels of exposure;

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Amendment 56Javi LópezMotion for a resolutionRecital B m (new)


B m. whereas in 2005, in the seas surrounding Europe (the Baltic Sea, the North Sea, the North-Eastern part of the Atlantic, the Mediterranean and the Black Sea), sulphur dioxide (SO2) emissions from international shipping were estimated at 1.7 million tonnes a year, nitrogen dioxide (NOx) emissions at 2.8 million tonnes, and particulate matter (PM2.5) at 195,000 tonnes;

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Amendment 57Javi LópezMotion for a resolutionParagraph -1 a (new)

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-1 a. (new) Heading: A partially effective tool that needs to be improved;

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Amendment 58Sylvia Limmer, Catherine Griset, Aurélia Beigneux, Joëlle MélinMotion for a resolutionParagraph 1


1. Recognises that while the EU Ambient Air Quality (AAQ) Directives have been effective in setting common EU air quality standards and facilitating the exchange of information on air quality, they have failed to effectively reduce air pollution and to curb its adverse effects; draws attention to the fact that a high number of Member States do not comply with current air quality standards and have not taken enough action to improve air quality and keep exceedances to a minimum;

1. Recognises that the EU Ambient Air Quality (AAQ) Directives have been effective in setting common EU air quality standards and facilitating the exchange of information on air quality;

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Amendment 59Sven GiegoldMotion for a resolutionParagraph 1


1. Recognises that while the EU Ambient Air Quality (AAQ) Directives have been effective in setting common EU air quality standards and facilitating the exchange of information on air quality, they have failed to effectively reduce air pollution and to curb its adverse effects; draws attention to the fact that a high number of Member States do not comply with current air quality standards and have not taken enough action to improve air quality and keep exceedances to a

1. Recognises that the three pillars of the EU clean air policy have been successful in driving a downward trend in emissions and concentrations of air pollutants in Europe, with the exception of certain pollutants, such as ammonia, the emissions of which have plateaued, and of hotspots, particularly large cities; believes, however, that much more needs to be done to achieve levels of air pollution that minimise the damage on human health and the environment, and

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minimum; calls for both the ambition of EU legislation and its implementation at national and local level to be urgently stepped up; recognises in particular that the EU Ambient Air Quality (AAQ) Directives have been effective in setting common EU air quality monitoring requirements and standards and facilitating the exchange of information on air quality; stresses that these standards have been instrumental in driving a downward trend in exceedances and exposure of population to exceedances; highlights that enforcement action by the European Commission and civil society in front of national courts has resulted in actionable rulings, showing that this legislation is enforceable; however, draws attention to the fact that a high number of Member States do not comply with current air quality standards and have not taken enough action to improve air quality and keep exceedances to a minimum, even after the start of infringement proceedings by the Commission and the issuance of court orders demanding compliance with the AAQ Directives;

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Amendment 60Ondřej KnotekMotion for a resolutionParagraph 1



1. Recognises that while the EU Ambient Air Quality (AAQ) Directives have been effective in setting common EU air quality standards and facilitating the exchange of information on air quality, they have failed to effectively reduce air pollution and to curb its adverse effects; draws attention to the fact that a high number of Member States still do not comply with current air quality standards despite the fact that Member States have established and implemented a number of air improving measures; recognises the

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fact that air pollution has no boundaries and that there is a significant exchange of air pollutants between Member States and also between EU and non-EU countries as noted in the Second Clean Air Outlook; points out that Member States are not able to take any actions regarding emission sources outside their territory; encourages the Commission to take into account the complex nature of air pollution (e.g. the secondary particulate matters formation, global and EU transfer of air pollution) when designing new air quality policy to ensure that appropriate measures are taken on appropriate level;

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Amendment 61Anna ZalewskaMotion for a resolutionParagraph 1



1. Recognises that while overall progress has been made in improving air quality in the EU over the last decade and the EU Ambient Air Quality (AAQ) Directives have been effective in setting common EU air quality standards and facilitating the exchange of information on air quality, we still have a significant problem with air pollution levels and their negative impact on health, quality of life and the environment; draws attention to the fact that a high number of Member States have difficulty complying with current air quality standards and have not taken enough action to improve air quality and keep exceedances to a minimum;

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Amendment 62Norbert Lins, Christine Schneider, Jens Gieseke, Ulrike Müller, Marlene Mortler, Stefan Berger, Andreas GlückMotion for a resolutionParagraph 1

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1. Recognises that while the EU Ambient Air Quality (AAQ) Directives have been effective in setting common EU air quality standards and facilitating the exchange of information on air quality, they have been partially effective in reducing air pollution and to curb its adverse effects; draws attention to the fact that a high number of Member States do not fully comply with current air quality standards and have not taken enough action to improve air quality and keep exceedances to a minimum; welcomes that the Commissions plans to provide an inventory of the measures of Members States; points out that there are many ambiguities in the AAQD for the requirements for measuring points and that these lead to questions on the representativeness and comparability of the results;

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Amendment 63Frédérique Ries, Martin Hojsík, Nils Torvalds, María Soraya Rodríguez RamosMotion for a resolutionParagraph 1 a (new)


1 a. Emphasizes that within most part of European territory there has been an increase in a number of pathologies linked to air pollution, such as asthma, neurotoxic diseases and diseases caused by endocrine disruptors, which justifies not only the full application of European legislations but also stricter sanctions by the Commission in the event of repeated non-compliance by the Member States;

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Amendment 64Frédérique Ries, Martin Hojsík, Nils Torvalds, María Soraya Rodríguez RamosMotion for a resolutionParagraph 1 b (new)

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1 b. Stresses that, according to data collected by the European Environment Agency, and despite the reduction in PM10 emissions, the majority of the urban population in European countries monitored between 2000 and 2015 is exposed to concentrations above the annual guideline value recommended in the WHO guidelines;

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2. Notes that AAQ Directives are based on air quality standards that are now 15 to 20 years old, and that some of them are much weaker than current World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines and the levels suggested by the latest scientific evidence on human health impacts; welcomes the commitment made in the European Green Deal to revise air quality standards and align them more closely with WHO standards;

2. Notes that AAQ Directives are based on air quality standards that are economically and environmentally effective; stresses in this context that, according to Germany's Federal Environment Agency (UBA), the last smog alert in West Germany was issued in 1987 and in the federal states in the East in 19933b;

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2. Notes that AAQ Directives are 2. Notes that AAQ Directives are

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based on air quality standards that are now 15 to 20 years old, and that some of them are much weaker than current World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines and the levels suggested by the latest scientific evidence on human health impacts; welcomes the commitment made in the European Green Deal to revise air quality standards and align them more closely with WHO standards;

based on air quality standards that are now 15 to 20 years old, and that some of them are much weaker than current World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines and estimated reference levels based on excess lifetime cancer risk, and the levels suggested by the latest scientific evidence on human health and environment impacts; welcomes the commitment made in the European Green Deal to revise air quality standards and calls on the Commission to fully align PM10, PM2.5, SO2 and 03 values with WHO guidelines and benzene (C6H6) and benzo(a)pyrene (BaP) values with WHO reference levels; stresses that the current mismatch between WHO recommended maximum levels of SO2 and PM10 concentrations and the EU standards, the former being six and two times lower than the latter respectively, represents a failure of the EU to fulfil its duty enshrined in the Treaties to provide a high level of protection of human health and the environment in the Union; calls on the Commission to publish a proposal for revised AAQ Directives as soon as the new WHO standards are available later in 2021; calls for the proposed revision of the AAQ Directives to include an obligation for a periodic review of the standards against the latest scientific and technical evidence, at the latest when updated WHO guidelines become available; calls on the Commission to also take into account the latest critical loads for protection of ecosystems set by the Convention on Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution;

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2. Notes that AAQ Directives are based on air quality standards that are now 15 to 20 years old, and that some of them are much weaker than current World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines and the levels suggested by the latest scientific evidence on human health impacts; welcomes the commitment made in the European Green Deal to revise air quality standards, highlights the difference between the EU standards being binding requirements and the WHO levels being guidelines, suggests to focus on the enforcement of already existing standards and only then to carefully assess new WHO standards; points out that additional obligations must also be practicable and implementable with the existing technical and financial possibilities; suggest that in the future economic efficiency and socioeconomic concerns would have to be taken into account to a greater extent than in the past when setting limit values, so as not to place an additional burden on the general public; in addition, limit values should take into account national differences in population density, urbanization, industrial sites and the like;

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Amendment 68Frédérique Ries, Martin Hojsík, Nils Torvalds, María Soraya Rodríguez RamosMotion for a resolutionParagraph 2



2. Notes that AAQ Directives are based on air quality standards that are now 15 to 20 years old, and that some of them are much weaker than current World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines and the levels suggested by the latest scientific evidence on human health impacts; welcomes the commitment made in the European Green Deal to revise air quality standards and asks for a full and complete alignment of EU standards with

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WHO guidelines;

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2. Notes that AAQ Directives are based on air quality standards that are now 15 to 20 years old, and that some of them are much weaker than current World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines and the levels suggested by the latest scientific evidence on human health impacts; notes that the commitment made in the European Green Deal to revise air quality standards and align them more closely with WHO standards will not, however, have a positive impact on air quality unless there is a substantial improvement in the implementation of the legislation;

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Amendment 70Michal Wiezik, Stanislav PolčákMotion for a resolutionParagraph 2



2. Notes that AAQ Directives are based on air quality standards that are now 15 to 20 years old, and that some of them are much weaker than current World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines and the levels suggested by the latest scientific evidence on human health impacts; welcomes the commitment made in the European Green Deal to revise air quality standards and calls on the Commission to periodically review the Directives in order to fully align them with regularly updated WHO standards;

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Amendment 71Tudor CiuhodaruMotion for a resolutionParagraph 2



2. Notes that AAQ Directives are based on air quality standards and indicators that are now 15 to 20 years old and fail to factor in developments regarding the nature and composition of pollutants from new products and technologies , and that some of them are much weaker than current World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines and the levels suggested by the latest scientific evidence on human health impacts; welcomes the commitment made in the European Green Deal to revise and correlate air quality standards and indicators and align them more closely with WHO standards;

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Amendment 72Javi LópezMotion for a resolutionParagraph 2



2. Notes that AAQ Directives are based on air quality standards that are now 15 to 20 years old, and that some of them are much weaker than current World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines and the levels suggested by the latest scientific evidence on human health impacts; welcomes the commitment made in the European Green Deal to revise air quality standards and align them more closely with WHO standards and the scientific advice; points out to the need to update EU air quality standards by means of legislative changes to the AAQ Directives and introduce a mechanism

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that allows for aperiodic review of the standards to be aligned with the latest technical and scientific evidence;

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2. Notes that AAQ Directives are based on air quality standards that are now 15 to 20 years old, and that some of them are much weaker than current World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines and the levels suggested by the latest scientific evidence on human health impacts; welcomes the commitment made in the European Green Deal to revise air quality standards and align them more closely with WHO standards; stresses the fact that revised air quality standard must be based on a feasibility study and accompanied by a specific set of measures needed for their achievement;

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Amendment 74Antoni Comín i OliveresMotion for a resolutionParagraph 2



2. Notes that AAQ Directives are based on air quality standards that are now 15 to 20 years old, and that some of them are much weaker than current World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines and the levels suggested by the latest scientific evidence on human health impacts; welcomes the commitment made in the European Green Deal to revise air quality standards and align them more closely with WHO standards, especially

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for particulate matter;

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Amendment 75Rovana PlumbMotion for a resolutionParagraph 2



2. Notes that AAQ Directives are based on air quality standards that are now 15 to 20 years old, and that some of them are much weaker than current World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines and the levels suggested by the latest scientific evidence on human health impacts; welcomes the commitment made in the European Green Deal to revise air quality standards and align them as closely as possible with WHO standards;

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Amendment 76Anna ZalewskaMotion for a resolutionParagraph 2 a (new)


2a. Calls on the Member States to improve the implementation of existing legislation in line with the rulings of the Court of Justice of the European Union; calls on the Commission to lay down the necessary guidelines and, where necessary, provide financial support under existing instruments in order to improve the Member States' capacity to comply with existing standards;

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2 a. Insists on the fact that the WHO guidelines are currently being revised and that their publication is now imminent; calls therefore for the setting up of a mechanism for the systematic adjustment of European standards to those of the WHO in order to ensure better environmental health protection;

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Amendment 78Anna ZalewskaMotion for a resolutionParagraph 2 b (new)


2b. Notes that the rulings of the Court of Justice of the European Union are not in themselves an effective tool to encourage the implementation of air quality plans, and recommends that the Commission take additional measures to support Member States and regions in implementing air quality plans;

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3. Recommends that revised air quality standards should also cover other non-regulated pollutants with relevant health impacts in the EU; highlights the EU’s ambition to lead the transition to a healthy planet, and recalls that in order to become a global leader it should lead by example by adopting, inter alia, ambitious quality standards for all air pollutants;

3. Recommends that in its impact assessment the Commission assess whether non-regulated pollutants with relevant health and quality of life impacts in the EU should be included in the future legislative reform;

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Amendment 80Andreas GlückMotion for a resolutionParagraph 3



3. Notes that EU air quality standards cover a total of 13 pollutants with relevant health impacts in the EU, while the current scientific evidence on adverse health effects of other air pollutants remains inconclusive and does not lend itself to setting standards1a; highlights the EU’s ambition to lead the transition to a healthy planet, and recalls that as a global leader it should continue leading by example by regularly assessing the latest scientific evidence on other potentially relevant air pollutants;

_________________1a 2019 COM Fitness Check of the AAQ Directives, SWD(2019) 428 final

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3. Recommends that revised air quality standards should also cover other non-regulated pollutants with relevant health impacts in the EU;

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3. Recommends extending monitoring requirements and air quality standards to cover all pollutants with demonstrated negative health and environment impacts in the EU; in particular, calls on the Commission to introduce monitoring requirements and air quality standards for ultra-fine particles, black carbon, micro-plastics and ammonia, and to complement existing monitoring requirements for mercury with concentration standards; highlights the EU’s ambition to lead the transition to a healthy planet, and recalls that in order to become a global leader it should lead by example by adopting, inter alia, ambitious quality standards for all air pollutants; notes that the great majority of infringement procedures launched by the EU Commission thus far pertains to exceedances of limit values, which shows that limit values have been the most enforceable elements of the AAQ Directive; calls on the Commission to propose the replacement of the current target values (O3, As, Cd, Ni and BaP) with limit values; points to the fact that yearly standards allow spikes in pollutant concentrations to go unnoticed, particularly in the case of PM 2.5; calls on the Commission to propose complementing yearly PM2.5 standards with daily and hourly limit values;

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Amendment 83Norbert Lins, Christine Schneider, Jens Gieseke, Ulrike Müller, Marlene Mortler, Stefan BergerMotion for a resolutionParagraph 3


3. Recommends that revised air quality standards should also cover other non-regulated pollutants with relevant

3. Recommends that the Commission should first assess whether revised air quality standards should also cover other

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health impacts in the EU; highlights the EU’s ambition to lead the transition to a healthy planet, and recalls that in order to become a global leader it should lead by example by adopting, inter alia, ambitious quality standards for all air pollutants;

non-regulated pollutants with relevant health impacts in the EU; highlights the EU’s ambition to lead the transition to a healthy planet, and recalls that in order to become a global leader it should lead by example by enforcing already existing ambitious quality standards for all air pollutants before suggesting new standards;

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3. Recommends that revised air quality standards should also cover other non-regulated pollutants with relevant health impacts in the EU or with potential contribution to transboundary air pollution, such as ultrafine particulate matter UFP or PM; highlights the EU’s ambition to lead the transition to a healthy planet, and recalls that in order to become a global leader it should lead by example by adopting, inter alia, ambitious quality standards for all air pollutants;

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3. Recommends that revised air quality standards should also cover other non-regulated pollutants with relevant health impacts in the EU and short-term standards for PM2.5 and alert thresholds for PM 1a; highlights the EU’s ambition to lead the transition to a healthy planet, and recalls that in order to become a global leader it should lead by example by

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adopting, inter alia, ambitious quality standards for all air pollutants;

_________________1a as recommended by auditors -outlined in the conclusions of the study by the EPRS, 2021: EU policy on air quality :Implementation of selected EU legislation, page 38

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Amendment 86Frédérique Ries, Martin Hojsík, Nils Torvalds, María Soraya Rodríguez RamosMotion for a resolutionParagraph 3



3. Recommends that revised air quality standards should also cover other non-regulated pollutants, such as ultra-fine particles and black carbon, with relevant health impacts in the EU; highlights the EU’s ambition to lead the transition to a healthy planet, and recalls that in order to become a global leader it should lead by example by adopting, inter alia, ambitious quality standards for all air pollutants;

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3. Recommends that revised air quality standards should also cover other non-regulated pollutants with relevant health impacts in the EU, such as ultrafine particles and black carbon; highlights the EU’s ambition to lead the transition to a healthy planet, and recalls that in order to become a global leader it should lead by example by adopting, inter alia, ambitious quality standards for all air pollutants;

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3. Recommends that revised air quality standards should also cover other non-regulated pollutants and their relevant health impacts in the EU; highlights the EU’s ambition to lead the transition to a healthy planet, and recalls that in order to become a global leader it should lead by example by adopting, inter alia, ambitious quality standards for all air pollutants and, above all, regularly updating them;

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Amendment 89Javi LópezMotion for a resolutionParagraph 3 a (new)


3 a. (new) Heading: Measuring air pollution

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4. Stresses the need to guarantee that air quality is being measured by the Member States in appropriate locations and at emissions sources, in order to avoid underestimation of air pollution; calls on the Member States to improve their monitoring networks, and on the Commission to enforce the obligations of the Directive in this regard, including by

4. Stresses the need to guarantee that air quality is being measured in a standardised way by the Member States so as to ensure a comparable information base;

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providing support to Member States in setting up monitoring stations, the training and hiring of experts, and ensuring greater accuracy in inspection, control and monitoring;

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4. Stresses the need to guarantee that air quality is being measured by the Member States in appropriate locations and at emissions sources, in order to avoid underestimation of air pollution; calls on the Member States to improve their monitoring networks, and on the Commission to enforce the obligations of the Directive in this regard, including by providing support to Member States in setting up monitoring stations, the training and hiring of experts, and ensuring greater accuracy in inspection, control and monitoring;

4. Stresses the need to guarantee that air quality is being measured equally and comparably by the Member States in appropriate locations and at emissions sources, in order to avoid underestimation of air pollution and have representative results; calls on Commission to enforce the obligations of the Directive in this regard and making sure that the sampling points are comparable and representative for a specific area, including by providing support to Member States in setting up a mix of monitoring stations, sampling points and passive sampling points to guarantee representative results and to avoid systemic shortcomings, the training and hiring of experts, and ensuring greater accuracy in inspection, control and monitoring;

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4. Stresses the need to guarantee that air quality is being measured by the Member States in appropriate locations and at emissions sources, in order to avoid underestimation of air pollution;

4. Notes that the Directive does not provide detailed guidelines on the locating of measuring stations; stresses, however, the need to guarantee that air quality is being measured by the Member States in

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calls on the Member States to improve their monitoring networks, and on the Commission to enforce the obligations of the Directive in this regard, including by providing support to Member States in setting up monitoring stations, the training and hiring of experts, and ensuring greater accuracy in inspection, control and monitoring;

locations that ensure representative measurements for a given area, depending on whether or not it is an urbanised area; calls on the Member States to improve their monitoring networks, and on the Commission to enforce the obligations of the Directive in this regard, including by providing support to Member States in setting up monitoring stations, the training and hiring of experts, and ensuring greater accuracy in inspection, control and monitoring;

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4. Stresses the need to guarantee that air quality is being measured by the Member States in appropriate locations and at emissions sources, in order to avoid underestimation of air pollution; calls on the Commission to propose clearer provisions regarding the monitoring network and provide additional support to Member States in setting up monitoring stations, the training and hiring of experts, and ensuring greater accuracy in inspection, control and monitoring;

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Amendment 94João FerreiraMotion for a resolutionParagraph 4


4. Stresses the need to guarantee that air quality is being measured by the Member States in appropriate locations and at emissions sources, in order to avoid

4. Stresses the need to guarantee that air quality is being measured by the Member States in appropriate locations and at emissions sources, in order to avoid

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underestimation of air pollution; calls on the Member States to improve their monitoring networks, and on the Commission to enforce the obligations of the Directive in this regard, including by providing support to Member States in setting up monitoring stations, the training and hiring of experts, and ensuring greater accuracy in inspection, control and monitoring;

underestimation of air pollution; calls on the Member States to improve their knowledge of pollution levels in their territory and assess the effectiveness of air quality monitoring networks, enabling them to identify and resolve chronic and episodic levels of air pollution and improve their monitoring networks, and calls on the Commission to create the conditions for the obligations of the directive to be met in this regard, including by providing support to Member States in setting up monitoring stations, the training and hiring of experts, and ensuring greater accuracy in inspection, control and monitoring, so that appropriate measures can be taken to safeguard public health and quality of life;

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4. Stresses the need to guarantee that air quality is being measured by the Member States in appropriate locations and at emissions sources, in order to avoid underestimation of air pollution; calls on the Member States to improve their monitoring networks, and on the Commission to enforce the obligations of the Directive in this regard, including by providing immediate support to Member States in setting up monitoring stations, the training and hiring of experts, and ensuring greater accuracy in inspection, control and monitoring; points to the need for proper measurement across Europe of the air quality close to airports and ports, to improve the understanding of the impact of air and waterborne transport on air pollution; stresses that, the fact that Member States can choose the monitoring sites from which they communicate data to the EEA, can also lead to potential

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underestimation of air pollutant concentrations;

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4. Stresses the need to guarantee that air quality is being measured by the Member States in appropriate locations and at emissions sources, in order to avoid underestimation of air pollution; calls on the Member States to improve their monitoring networks, and on the Commission to enforce the obligations of the Directive in this regard, including by providing support to Member States in setting up monitoring stations, the training and hiring of experts, and ensuring greater accuracy in inspection, control and monitoring, accompanied by the creation of a platform for exchange of best practices;

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4. Stresses the need to guarantee that air quality is being measured by the Member States in appropriate locations and at emissions sources, in order to avoid underestimation of air pollution; calls on the Member States to improve their monitoring networks, and on the Commission to enforce the obligations of the Directive in this regard, including by providing support to Member States in setting up monitoring stations, the training and hiring of experts, and ensuring greater

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accuracy in inspection, control and monitoring;

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Amendment 98João FerreiraMotion for a resolutionParagraph 4 a (new)


4a. Calls on the Commission to put forward measures to promote investment by the Member States in improved monitoring networks, the construction of monitoring stations, the training and recruitment of specialists and analysts and the introduction of more strigent oversight, control and monitoring procedures;

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Amendment 99Tudor CiuhodaruMotion for a resolutionParagraph 4 a (new)


4a. Stresses the need to provide ongoing training for experts, including retraining for those with experience in other fields who are seeking to enter his area of activity, and for young unemployed people;

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5. Acknowledges the fact that Member States have established an air quality monitoring network based on

5. Acknowledges the fact that Member States have established an air quality monitoring network based on

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common criteria defined by the AAQ Directives, with more than 4 000 monitoring stations and 16 000 sampling points; points out that site location provisions involve multiple criteria and offer a degree of flexibility which can make verification more difficult, and which often generate data that does not provide information on where the highest concentrations of air pollutants occur; urges the Commission to review and establish new mandatory rules for locating monitoring stations and sampling points;

common criteria defined by the AAQ Directives, with more than 4 000 monitoring stations and 16 000 sampling points; points out that site location provisions involve multiple criteria; urges the Commission to review the rules for locating monitoring stations and sampling points so that comparable readings can be generated;

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5. Acknowledges the fact that Member States have established an air quality monitoring network based on common criteria defined by the AAQ Directives, with more than 4 000 monitoring stations and 16 000 sampling points; points out that site location provisions involve multiple criteria and offer a degree of flexibility which can make verification more difficult, and which often generate data that does not provide information on where the highest concentrations of air pollutants occur; urges the Commission to review and establish new mandatory rules for locating monitoring stations and sampling points;

5. Acknowledges the fact that Member States have established an air quality monitoring network based on common criteria defined by the AAQ Directives, with more than 4 000 monitoring stations and 16 000 sampling points; points out that site location provisions involve multiple criteria and offer a degree of flexibility which can make verification more difficult, and which often generate data that does not provide information on representative exposure to pollution and can lead to both over- and under-measurement; urges the Commission to review and improve the guidelines on locating monitoring stations and sampling points;

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5. Acknowledges the fact that Member States have established an air quality monitoring network based on common criteria defined by the AAQ Directives, with more than 4 000 monitoring stations and 16 000 sampling points; points out that site location provisions involve multiple criteria and offer a degree of flexibility which can make EU wide comparability and representativeness of results more difficult, and which often generate data that does not provide information that are representative for a specific area; urges the Commission to review and establish new mandatory rules for locating monitoring stations and sampling points that ensure representativeness of the sampling points for a specific area and comparability with other sampling point in all members states; suggests to introduce a combination of fixed monitoring and modelling accompanied by passive sampling, because the high variability of air pollutants is difficult to grasp with fixed monitoring sites; calls on the Commission to set up criteria for "general population exposure" and provisions for the representativeness of monitoring sites;

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Amendment 103Sven Giegold, Frédérique RiesMotion for a resolutionParagraph 5


5. Acknowledges the fact that Member States have established an air quality monitoring network based on common criteria defined by the AAQ Directives, with more than 4 000 monitoring stations and 16 000 sampling points; points out that site location provisions involve multiple criteria and

5. Acknowledges the fact that Member States have established an air quality monitoring network based on common criteria defined by the AAQ Directives, with more than 4 000 monitoring stations and 16 000 sampling points; points out that site location provisions involve multiple criteria and

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offer a degree of flexibility which can make verification more difficult, and which often generate data that does not provide information on where the highest concentrations of air pollutants occur; urges the Commission to review and establish new mandatory rules for locating monitoring stations and sampling points;

offer a degree of flexibility which can make verification more difficult, and which often generates situations in which monitoring networks in cities do not provide information on locations where the highest concentrations of air pollutants occur, creating the risk that exceedances of limit values go unnoticed; urges the Commission to provide immediate guidance to Member States, through an implementing act in accordance with Article 28 of Directive 2008/50/EC, on how to set up their monitoring networks, without waiting for the revision of the AAQ Directives, as announced in the Fitness Check and in the Green Deal Communication; calls on the Commission, in the framework of the proposals for revised AAQ Directives, to review and establish new mandatory rules for locating monitoring stations and sampling points, building inter alia on the guidance provided in the implementing act, so as to guarantee accurate and consistent air quality monitoring;

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Amendment 104Lídia PereiraMotion for a resolutionParagraph 5


5. Acknowledges the fact that Member States have established an air quality monitoring network based on common criteria defined by the AAQ Directives, with more than 4 000 monitoring stations and 16 000 sampling points; points out that site location provisions involve multiple criteria and offer a degree of flexibility which can make verification more difficult, and which often generate data that does not provide information on where the highest concentrations of air pollutants occur; urges the Commission to review and establish new mandatory rules for locating

5. Acknowledges the fact that Member States have established an air quality monitoring network based on common criteria defined by the AAQ Directives, with more than 4 000 monitoring stations and 16 000 sampling points; points out that site location provisions involve multiple criteria and offer a degree of flexibility which can make verification more difficult, and which often generate data that does not provide information on where the highest concentrations of air pollutants occur; urges the Commission to review and establish new mandatory rules for locating

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monitoring stations and sampling points; monitoring stations and sampling points; stresses the importance of choosing an open and anonymised data format that can be used freely and without constraint by all, especially the scientific community;

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5. Acknowledges the fact that Member States have established an air quality monitoring network based on common criteria defined by the AAQ Directives, with more than 4 000 monitoring stations and 16 000 sampling points; points out that site location provisions involve multiple criteria and offer a degree of flexibility which can make verification more difficult, and which often generate data that does not provide information on where the highest concentrations of air pollutants occur; urges the Commission to review and establish new mandatory rules for locating monitoring stations and sampling points, such as setting a minimum number of measurement stations per type of emissions source (transport, industry, agriculture or residential), or the possibility for the Commission to require additional monitoring points to be located where necessary to ensure better measurement of air pollution;

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5. Acknowledges the fact that 5. Acknowledges the fact that

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Member States have established an air quality monitoring network based on common criteria defined by the AAQ Directives, with more than 4 000 monitoring stations and 16 000 sampling points; points out that site location provisions involve multiple criteria and offer a degree of flexibility which can make verification more difficult, and which often generate data that does not provide information on where the highest concentrations of air pollutants occur; urges the Commission to review and establish new mandatory rules for locating monitoring stations and sampling points;

Member States have established an air quality monitoring network based on common criteria defined by the AAQ Directives, with more than 4 000 monitoring stations and 16 000 sampling points; points out that site location provisions involve multiple criteria and offer a degree of flexibility which can make verification more difficult, and which often generate data that does not provide information on where the highest concentrations of air pollutants occur; urges the Commission to review and establish new mandatory rules for locating monitoring stations and sampling points; stresses that air quality modelling can complement and substitute sampling points therefore the AAQD should incorporate air quality modelling more clearly into the air quality assessment process;

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5. Acknowledges the fact that Member States have established an air quality monitoring network based on common criteria defined by the AAQ Directives, with more than 4 000 monitoring stations and 16 000 sampling points; points out that site location provisions involve multiple criteria and offer a degree of flexibility which can make verification more difficult, and which often generate data that does not provide information on where the highest concentrations of air pollutants occur; urges the Commission to review and establish new mandatory rules for locating monitoring stations and sampling points, taking account of conditions at national level;

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5a. Stresses that measures to achieve a more effective ambient air quality monitoring network should include an increase in the number of stations to obtain readings for industrial activity and transport, in order to monitor and assess of the impact of major emission sources on ambient air quality, giving priority to:

(i) the installation of monitoring stations covering power, pulp and paper, glass and ceramic and cement plants, as well as waste incineration and/or co-incineration and other industrial plants that have prompted complaints from the public and are not within range of existing monitoring stations;

(ii) at least one station monitoring the impact of transport flows and one urban-background monitoring station, these being distributed uniformly throughout the territory of the Member States and not concentrated in urban areas;

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Amendment 109Lídia PereiraMotion for a resolutionParagraph 5 a (new)


5a. Considers that, while Member States have a duty to alert affected members of the public to the precautions necessary for as long as air quality has dropped to critical levels, efforts and investment should primarily be channelled into short- and long-term preventive and anticipatory anti-pollution

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measures;

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Amendment 110Norbert Lins, Christine Schneider, Jens Gieseke, Ulrike Müller, Marlene Mortler, Stefan Berger, Andreas GlückMotion for a resolutionParagraph 5 a (new)


5 a. Stresses that real-time data on air quality would improve monitoring immensely; points out that the Commission should always consider the most recent technical measuring systems, norms and standards;

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6. Stresses that the AAQ Directives do not focus on reducing emissions in places where people suffer most from air pollution, or where concentrations are highest, and that concrete action in this area is needed; notes that lower socio-economic groups are more exposed to air pollution because they are more likely to live close to sources of heavy pollution, both outdoor, such as traffic and industrial areas, and indoor, such as the combustion of low-quality solid fuels for domestic heating; underlines in this regard the need to better reflect human exposure to air pollution in EU law, and urges the Commission to include new indicators in air quality indices, such as population density around monitoring stations and sampling points;

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6. Notes that lower socio-economic groups are more exposed to air pollution because they are more likely to live close to sources of heavy pollution, both outdoor, such as traffic and industrial areas, and indoor, such as the combustion of low-quality solid fuels for domestic heating; calls on the Commission to offer additional financial support specifically aimed at low income citizens to improve their wellbeing and help to reduce air pollution in their communities;

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6. Stresses that the AAQ Directives do not focus on reducing emissions in places where people suffer most from air pollution, or where concentrations are highest, and that concrete action in this area is needed; notes that lower socio-economic groups are more exposed to air pollution because they are more likely to live close to sources of heavy pollution, both outdoor, such as traffic and industrial areas, and indoor, such as the combustion of low-quality solid fuels for domestic heating; underlines in this regard the need to better reflect human exposure to air

6. Stresses that the AAQ Directives must focus on emissions across areas and representative area concentration sampling rather than on single point measurements; notes that lower socio-economic groups are more exposed to air pollution because they are more likely to live close to sources of heavy pollution, both outdoor, such as traffic and industrial areas, and indoor, such as the combustion of low-quality solid fuels for domestic heating; underlines in this regard the need to adequately reflect human exposure to air pollution in EU law, and urges the

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pollution in EU law, and urges the Commission to include new indicators in air quality indices, such as population density around monitoring stations and sampling points;

Commission to assess new indicators in air quality indices, such as population density around monitoring stations and sampling points;

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6. Stresses that the AAQ Directives should rather focus on concentration of whole areas and representative concentrations than on single sampling points; notes that lower socio-economic groups are more exposed to air pollution because they are more likely to live close to sources of heavy pollution, both outdoor, such as traffic and industrial areas, and indoor, such as the combustion of low-quality solid fuels for domestic heating; underlines in this regard the need to better reflect human exposure to air pollution in EU law, and urges the Commission to include new indicators in air quality indices, such as population density around monitoring stations and sampling points to ensure that the results are representative for the area;

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6. Stresses that the AAQ Directives do not focus on reducing emissions in places where people suffer most from air pollution, or where concentrations are highest, and that concrete action in this

6. Stresses that even though the AAQ Directives include some provisions on reducing emissions in places where people suffer most from air pollution, or where concentrations are highest, further

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area is needed; notes that lower socio-economic groups are more exposed to air pollution because they are more likely to live close to sources of heavy pollution, both outdoor, such as traffic and industrial areas, and indoor, such as the combustion of low-quality solid fuels for domestic heating; underlines in this regard the need to better reflect human exposure to air pollution in EU law, and urges the Commission to include new indicators in air quality indices, such as population density around monitoring stations and sampling points;

guidance on the macro scaling of the sampling points is needed from the Commission in order to strengthen the implementation of these specific provisions; notes that lower socio-economic groups are more exposed to air pollution because they are more likely to live close to sources of heavy pollution, both outdoor, such as traffic and industrial areas, and indoor, such as the combustion of low-quality solid fuels for domestic heating; underlines in this regard the need to better reflect human exposure to air pollution in EU law, and urges the Commission to include new indicators in air quality indices, such as population density around monitoring stations and sampling points;

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6. Stresses that the AAQ Directives do not focus on reducing emissions in places where people suffer most from air pollution, or where concentrations are highest, and that concrete action in this area is needed; notes that lower socio-economic groups are more exposed to air pollution because they are more likely to live close to sources of heavy pollution, both outdoor, such as traffic and industrial areas, and indoor, such as the combustion of low-quality solid fuels for domestic heating; underlines in this regard the need to better reflect human exposure to air pollution in EU law, and urges the Commission to include new indicators in air quality indices, such as population density around monitoring stations and sampling points, as well as to share existing best practices in this regard, such as the establishment of Priority Areas for

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Quality Air Improvement;

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6. Stresses that the AAQ Directives do not focus on reducing emissions in places where people suffer most from air pollution, or where concentrations are highest, and that concrete action in this area is needed; notes that lower socio-economic groups are more exposed to air pollution because they are more likely to live close to sources of heavy pollution, both outdoor, such as traffic and industrial areas, and indoor, such as the combustion of low-quality solid fuels for domestic heating; underlines in this regard the need to better reflect human exposure to air pollution in EU law, and urges the Commission to include new indicators in air quality indices, such as population density around monitoring stations and sampling points; stresses, however, that these new indicators, and potential exposure reduction targets, should be additional to, and not substitute, limit values, which have proven to be the most effective and enforceable standards so far, and that the same air quality standards must apply across Europe;

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Amendment 118Lídia PereiraMotion for a resolutionParagraph 6 a (new)


6a. Believes Member States should seek to ensure that the example set by those cities with good practices in this

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area is followed by other cities in general through the formulation and implementation of contingency/emergency plans, to be activated as soon as possible where high concentrations of pollutant gases and particles that jeopardise the public health are predicted or are actually occurring;

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6a. Considers that a more effective air quality monitoring network must also be able to measure the impact of major pollution sources on air quality standards in nearby villages and protected ecosystems and provide more information regarding the range of pollutants being assessed;

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Amendment 120Sirpa PietikäinenMotion for a resolutionParagraph 6 a (new)


6 a. Calls for the Commission to consider regulating indoor air quality independently or as a part of sustainable buildings legislation, covering indoor air quality in confined spaces at least in public and commercial real estate;

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Amendment 121Lídia PereiraMotion for a resolutionParagraph 6 b (new)

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6b. Stresses the need to achieve healthier cities and substantial reductions in air pollution levels, for example through the creation of green areas and pedestrian and car-free zones in urban centres and by encouraging the use of bicycles and other eco-friendly devices through the extension of safe cycle paths in and around city centres;

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Amendment 122João FerreiraMotion for a resolutionParagraph 6 b (new)


6b. Considers it of the utmost importance, when installing air quality observation networks, to recommend that industrial impact monitoring stations carry out an analytical assessment of pollutants characteristically emitted by processes where such a direct relationship can be established;

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Amendment 123João FerreiraMotion for a resolutionParagraph 6 c (new)


6c. Considers it essential to carry out an overall analysis of results obtained by the monitoring network and produce annual reports, which, being in the public domain, include spatial and temporal data analyses and assessments of the impact on quality of life and ecosystems, accompanied by recommendations concerning action to address any chronic or episodic air pollution detected;

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Amendment 124Javi LópezMotion for a resolutionParagraph 6 b (new)


6 b. (new) Heading: Lessons learnt from the COVID-19 crisis;

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7. Points out that the COVID-19 pandemic is an example of the inextricable links between human health and ecosystem health; emphasises the need to include the lessons learnt on air pollution from the COVID-19 pandemic when designing new policies;

7. Points out that viruses are so small that it is impossible to filter them from the air by any conventional technical means and that they can emerge independently of air pollution, as happened, for example, with pandemics in pre-industrial times;

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7a. Notes that this has helped to identify and confirm car use as a principal reason for increased emissions of air pollutants, since it was the traffic monitoring stations that registered the largest increases in emissions following the easing of lockdown restrictions; points out that these findings confirm existing knowledge of the impact of private vehicles on air quality in large urban centres, and that pollutant emissions from this source can only be reduced by

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promoting the more widespread use of the less pollutant public transport alternatives;

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8. Notes that confinement measures to control the spread of pandemic led to a drastic decrease in emissions and air pollution, thus clearly showing the impact of human activities on the environment; notes with regret that continuous exposure to air pollution may worsen the impact of respiratory viruses such as COVID-19; underlines that fighting air pollution must be at the core of the EU recovery plan, and that mandatory and effectively enforced air quality requirements are key to guaranteeing citizens’ health and improving their resilience against future health threats;

8. Notes that confinement measures to control the spread of COVID-19 led to a less pronounced decrease in emissions and air pollution, as set out in the study in 'Science Advances' of 13 January 20213c; maintains that in many cases, for example involving fine particulate matter, little or no decrease was discernible;

_________________3c Science Advances, 13 Jan 2021, Abrupt but smaller than expected changes in surface air quality attributable to COVID-19 lockdowns, https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/7/3/eabd6696.

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8. Notes that confinement measures to control the spread of pandemic led to a drastic decrease in emissions and air pollution, thus clearly showing the impact

8. Notes that confinement measures to control the spread of the pandemic led to a temporary decrease in emissions and air pollution, yet, some measurement points

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of human activities on the environment; notes with regret that continuous exposure to air pollution may worsen the impact of respiratory viruses such as COVID-19; underlines that fighting air pollution must be at the core of the EU recovery plan, and that mandatory and effectively enforced air quality requirements are key to guaranteeing citizens’ health and improving their resilience against future health threats;

registered increased NO2 emissions despite reduced traffic flows thus clearly showing that driving restrictions benefit health protection less than expected and that a holistic, cross-sectoral approach is expedient;; notes with regret that continuous, long-term exposure to air pollution may worsen the impact of respiratory viruses such as COVID-19; underlines that improving air quality must be part of the EU recovery plan, and that mandatory and effective enforcement of EU air quality requirements is key to guaranteeing citizens’ health and improving their resilience against future health threats;

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Amendment 129Sven Giegold, Jutta PaulusMotion for a resolutionParagraph 8



8. Notes that confinement measures to control the spread of the pandemic led to a drastic decrease in emissions and air pollution, thus clearly showing the impact of human activities on the environment; notes with regret that continuous exposure to air pollution may worsen the impact of respiratory diseases such as COVID-19; is concerned with the risk that pollution may bounce back to pre- lock-down levels or, worse, to even higher levels, and cautions against the postponement or cancellation of local measures aimed to reduce air pollution, particularly from road traffic; points that fighting climate change by transitioning from fossil fuel combustion in power plants and transport to renewable energy brings added value also through the reduction of air pollution; underlines that fighting air pollution must be at the core of the EU recovery plan, and that mandatory and effectively enforced air quality requirements are key to guaranteeing citizens’ health and

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improving their resilience against future health threats; urges Member States to step up the ambition of their clean air policies, including through the targeted use of funding from the EU National Recovery and Resilience Facility; urges the Commission to ensure that in line with the ‘do no significant harm principle’ no funding from the National Recovery and Resilience Plans will be spent on activities that lead to a significant increase in the emissions of pollutants into air, water or land and to make approval of the Plans conditional on their alignment with the zero pollution ambition of the European Green Deal;

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8. Notes that confinement measures to control the spread of pandemic led to a temporary decrease in emissions and air pollution, thus clearly showing the impact of human activities on the environment; suggests to analyse all measures to understand the impact of these; notes with regret that continuous exposure to air pollution may worsen the impact of respiratory viruses such as COVID-19; underlines that fighting air pollution must be at the core of the EU recovery plan, and that mandatory and effectively enforced air quality requirements are key to guaranteeing citizens’ health and improving their resilience against future health threats;

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Amendment 131Javi LópezMotion for a resolution

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8. Notes that confinement measures to control the spread of pandemic led to a drastic reduction in traffic and industrial activity and as a consequence resulted in unprecedented decrease in emissions and air pollution at continental scale, with pollutant concentrations well below the legal limits and WHO recommendations, thus clearly showing the impact of human activities on the environment; notes with regret that continuous exposure to air pollution may worsen the impact of respiratory viruses such as COVID-19; highlights the fact that reducing air pollution to the levels seen during lockdown over the long-term would have substantial benefits for human health, as well as for agriculture and natural ecosystems; therefore underlines that fighting air pollution must be at the core of the EU recovery plan, and that mandatory and effectively enforced air quality requirements are key to guaranteeing citizens’ health and improving their resilience against future health threats;

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8. Notes that confinement measures to control the spread of pandemic led to a drastic decrease in emissions and air pollution, thus clearly showing the impact of human activities on the environment; notes with regret that continuous exposure to air pollution may worsen the impact of respiratory viruses such as COVID-19; underlines that fighting air pollution must be at the core of the EU recovery plan, and that mandatory and effectively enforced air

8. Notes that confinement measures to control the spread of pandemic led to a drastic decrease in emissions and air pollution, primarily attributable to lower road, air and international transport volumes and reductions in certain economic and industrial activities, thus clearly showing the impact of human activities on the environment; notes with regret that continuous exposure to air pollution may worsen the impact of

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quality requirements are key to guaranteeing citizens’ health and improving their resilience against future health threats;

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8. Notes that confinement measures to control the spread of pandemic led to a drastic decrease in emissions and air pollution (except of household heating) , thus clearly showing the impact of human activities on the environment; notes with regret that continuous exposure to air pollution may worsen the impact of respiratory viruses such as COVID-19; underlines that fighting air pollution must be at the core of the EU recovery plan, and that mandatory and effectively enforced air quality requirements are key to guaranteeing citizens’ health and improving their resilience against future health threats;

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Amendment 134Simona Baldassarre, Silvia Sardone, Lucia Vuolo, Danilo Oscar Lancini, Vincenzo Sofo, Annalisa Tardino, Gianantonio Da ReMotion for a resolutionParagraph 8 a (new)


8a. Acknowledges that the reduction in CO2 emissions resulting from COVID-19 containment measures was smaller than predicted, being estimated at around -7% (-3% to -13% depending on the

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Member State1a); notes that the substantial and sustained reduction in road traffic and economic activity is not being matched by a proportionate reduction in atmospheric pollution, especially that caused by fine dust particles; stresses that the putative direct link between air pollution, in particular fine dust particles, and the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus now appears unlikely1b; concludes, therefore, that private mobility choices have less impact on air pollution than previously affirmed and predicted; urges the Commission accordingly to proceed without delay to an in-depth review of Directive 2008/50/EC, to finally take into account the geographical characteristics and climatic conditions of each territory and focus on the main anthropogenic sources of air pollution;

_________________1a Le Quéré, C., Jackson, R.B., Jones, M.W. et al. Temporary reduction in daily global CO2 emissions during the COVID-19 forced confinement. Nat. Clim. Chang. 10, 647–653 (2020)1b 'Atmospheric particulate matter does not favour the spread of COVID-19 into the air' - Press release by National Research Council (https://www.cnr.it/it/comunicato-stampa/9921/il-particolato-atmosferico-non-favorisce-la-diffusione-in-aria-del-covid-19)

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8 a. Notes that the COVID-19 crisis has showed that the reduction of motorized traffic and changes in mobility

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patterns are an effective tool to reduce air pollution in cities; believes, therefore, that good practices such as proximity shopping, voluntary teleworking, electronic administration or staggering working hours should be promoted; emphasises the need to accelerate the transition to electric vehicles and to prioritise a modal shift, such as promoting walking, cycling, carpooling, new taxi schemes and public transport, to stop unsustainable mobility patterns;

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8a. Notes that Commission support for free public transport services such as those already provided in a number of European cities would be a major step towards meeting the targets set out in the air quality directives, including the implementation of specific containment and prevention measures helping to to bring pollution down to agreed levels;

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8 b. Underlines that it is crucial to incentivise the market for electric vehicles and to issue Member States with guiding recommendations to encourage them to implement fiscal incentives for zero- and low-emission vehicles; stresses that the availability and accessibility of charging infrastructure, including in private and public buildings in accordance with the

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Energy Performance of Buildings Directive (EPBD), and the competitiveness of electric vehicles are essential for increasing consumer acceptance; highlights the importance of ensuring that electricity generated for electric vehicles comes from sustainable energy sources;

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Amendment 138Javi LópezMotion for a resolutionParagraph 8 c (new)


8 c. Notes that cycling and walking have the lowest carbon footprint of all forms of transportation, and also have direct health benefits; highlights that broad, well-maintained and unobstructed pavements and cycle lanes, with a focus on central commuting streets and integrated into existing road networks while being securely separated from car lanes, can incentivise both forms of active travel; urges national, regional and local authorities to adopt ambitious policies and measures accordingly;

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Amendment 139Javi LópezMotion for a resolutionParagraph 8 e (new)


8 e. (new) Heading: Promoting successful local policies on air quality

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Amendment 140Javi LópezMotion for a resolutionParagraph 8 f (new)

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8 f. Asks to the Commission to establish guidelines to ensure a coherent approach in the design and implementation of local policies addressing the same sources of air pollution that have proven to be successful; points out to the fact that clear decreasing trends in air pollution can be observed mainly when policies are implemented in combination, and therefore a coherent approach across the EU in the design and implementation of local policies is fundamental to their success;

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Amendment 141Javi LópezMotion for a resolutionParagraph 8 g (new)


8 g. Underlines that achieving policy coherence also requires cooperation between different authorities, and calls on the Commission and Member States to collaborate closely with national, regional and local authorities to promote and harmonize local policies that have demonstrated to be effective in improving urban air quality, such as Low Emissions Zones, reduction of urban speed limits to 30km/h, congestion charges and retrofitting cars with Diesel Particulate Filters (DPF);

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Amendment 142Javi LópezMotion for a resolutionParagraph 8 h (new)


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8 h. Highlights the effectiveness of Low Emissions Zones to improve air quality when road traffic is the major source of pollution;notes that the design of a Low Emissions Zone is the main factor affecting its effectiveness and, based on examples of successfully designed and implemented Low Emissions Zones, makes the following recommendations:

- To establish ambitious Low Emissions Zones in all EU cities with more than 50,000 inhabitants;

- To focus on city-wide measures where possible, which are likely to be more effective than measures focused on specific streets or areas to improve air quality;

- To implement stringent policies that allow access only to the cleanest vehicle;

- To establish a flexible approach that allows for revisions to the scope or approach of the Low Emission Zone over time, taking into account changes in vehicle emission performance, technology and need for stricter enforcement;

- To ensure effective implementation of a Low Emission Zone via the use of automatic vehicle controls (instead of more random, ad hoc, manual controls);

- To provide for sufficient awareness raising and engagement with stakeholders in the design and implementation of air quality policies directly affecting them as traffic restrictions are more likely to be accepted if the population is informed of the policy, its health benefits, alternatives and supporting measures;

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Amendment 143Javi LópezMotion for a resolutionParagraph 8 i (new)


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8 i. Totally rejects reversion policies and calls on the Commission to establish new legal provisions in the Ambient Air Quality Directives to prevent that local policies and measures that have proven to be effective in improving air quality can be reverted by criteria of political opportunism; alerts that local measures such as the establishment of low emissions zones, also involve the adaptations and acceptance of residents affected by restrictions, and that reverting such measures not only has adverse effects towards air quality, but also towards public opinion, reducing the awareness and the gravity of air pollution;

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Amendment 144Javi LópezMotion for a resolutionParagraph 8 j (new)


8 j. Emphasises the need of a profound urban restructuring to guarantee clean air so it has an impact on citizens’ health and the environment; believes that “15 minute cities”, within which homes, workplaces, public services and shops are accessible within 15 minutes by foot or public transport, should form the basis of the urban long-term planning;

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Amendment 145Javi LópezMotion for a resolutionParagraph 8 k (new)


8 k. Calls on the Commission and

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Member States to ensure the necessary investments to accelerate the shift to vehicles with low emissions, including Low Emissions Zones, the development of electric vehicle charging infrastructure, cleaner public transport and public procurement;

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Amendment 146Javi LópezMotion for a resolutionParagraph 8 m (new)


8 m. (new) Heading: EU policies impact on air quality

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9. Welcomes the announcement of the Commission’s Zero Pollution Action Plan; emphasises that air pollution is a burden that requires a holistic approach; alerts that any new measures will be worthless if air quality is not properly prioritised and mainstreamed in all EU policies, including EU emission source legislation, such as on climate, energy, transport, industry, agriculture and waste, while ensuring better synergies between all policy areas; calls on the Commission and the Member States to cooperate more closely in all areas and at all levels in order to help local authorities achieve cleaner air;

9. Rejects the Zero Pollution Action Plan announced by the Commission, since completely eliminating all pollutants is virtually impossible without bringing life in all its aspects to a halt;

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Amendment 148Anna Zalewska

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9. Welcomes the announcement of the Commission’s Zero Pollution Action Plan; emphasises that air pollution is a burden that requires a holistic approach; considers that air quality should be properly prioritised in EU policies, including EU emission source legislation; notes that other EU policies, such as on climate, energy, transport, industry, agriculture and waste, should have a positive impact on air quality; calls on the Commission and the Member States to cooperate more closely in all areas and at all levels in order to help local authorities achieve cleaner air;

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9. Takes note of the announcement of the Commission’s Zero Pollution Action Plan; highlights that zero pollution is technically difficult; calls on the Commission to consider all technical solutions to help to reduce emissions in a technology neutral way; emphasises that air pollution is a burden that requires a holistic evidence-based approach; alerts that any new measures will be worthless if air quality is not properly prioritised and mainstreamed in all EU policies,including EU emission source legislation, highlight that emission reduction in all sectors, climate, energy, transport, industry, agriculture and waste is important while ensuring better synergies between all policy areas; calls on the Commission and the Member States to cooperate more

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closely in all areas and at all levels in order to help local authorities achieve cleaner air; notes that driving restrictions are ineffective in health protection as they have little effect on the vehicle fleet or on city-wide emissions;

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9. Welcomes the announcement of the Commission’s Zero Pollution Action Plan; emphasises that air pollution is a problem that requires a holistic and cross-border approach, in view of the damage to health and the environment caused by certain pollutant emissions, either alone or through chemical reactions; alerts that any new measures will be worthless if air quality is not properly prioritised and mainstreamed in all EU policies, including EU emission source legislation, such as on climate, energy, transport, industry, agriculture and waste, while ensuring better synergies between all policy areas; calls on the Commission and the Member States to cooperate more closely in all areas and at all levels in order to help local authorities achieve cleaner air;

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9. Welcomes the announcement of the Commission’s Zero Pollution Action Plan; emphasises that air pollution is a burden that requires a holistic approach; alerts that any new measures will be worthless if air

9. Welcomes the announcement of the Commission’s Zero Pollution Action Plan; emphasises that air pollution is a burden that requires a holistic approach; alerts that any new measures will be worthless if air

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quality is not properly prioritised and mainstreamed in all EU policies, including EU emission source legislation, such as on climate, energy, transport, industry, agriculture and waste, while ensuring better synergies between all policy areas; calls on the Commission and the Member States to cooperate more closely in all areas and at all levels in order to help local authorities achieve cleaner air;

quality is not properly prioritised and mainstreamed in all EU policies, including EU emission source legislation, such as on climate, energy, transport, industry, agriculture and waste, while ensuring better synergies between all policy areas; calls on the Commission and the Member States to cooperate more closely in all areas and at all levels;

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9. Welcomes the announcement of the Commission’s Zero Pollution Action Plan; recalls the close link between nature conservation and air quality since the regulation of air quality is one of nature’s contribution to people; emphasises that air pollution is a burden that requires a holistic approach; alerts that any new measures will be worthless if air quality is not properly prioritised and mainstreamed in all EU policies, including EU emission source legislation, such as on climate, energy, transport, industry, agriculture and waste, while ensuring better synergies between all policy areas; calls on the Commission and the Member States to cooperate more closely in all areas and at all levels in order to help local authorities achieve cleaner air;

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9. Welcomes the announcement of the 9. Welcomes the announcement of the

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Commission’s Zero Pollution Action Plan; emphasises that air pollution is a burden that requires a holistic approach; alerts that any new measures will be worthless if air quality is not properly prioritised and mainstreamed in all EU policies, including EU emission source legislation, such as on climate, energy, transport, industry, agriculture and waste, while ensuring better synergies between all policy areas; calls on the Commission and the Member States to cooperate more closely in all areas and at all levels in order to help local authorities achieve cleaner air;

Commission’s Zero Pollution Action Plan; emphasises that air pollution is a burden that requires a holistic approach as negatively impacts also on land and water life by means of eutrophication and acidification; alerts that any new measures will be worthless if air quality is not properly prioritised and mainstreamed in all EU policies, including EU emission source legislation, such as on climate, energy, transport, industry, agriculture and waste, while ensuring better synergies between all policy areas; calls on the Commission and the Member States to cooperate more closely in all areas and at all levels in order to help local authorities achieve cleaner air;

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9. Welcomes the announcement of the Commission’s Zero Pollution Action Plan; emphasises that air pollution is a burden that requires a holistic approach; alerts that any new measures will be worthless if air quality is not properly prioritised and mainstreamed in all EU policies, including EU emission source legislation, such as on climate, energy, transport, industry, agriculture and waste, while ensuring that there are no contradictions and better synergies between all policy areas; calls on the Commission and the Member States to cooperate more closely in all areas and at all levels in order to help local authorities achieve cleaner air; points to the growing link between air pollution and climate change, as shown by growing ozone concentrations triggered by temperatures rise and more recurrent heat waves; highlights the need to more seriously regulate emissions of methane and black carbon, which contribute to both air

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pollution and global warming; welcomes the recently published “EU strategy to reduce methane emissions”, however encourages the Commission to step up its ambition particularly in terms of action to minimise emissions, especially from agriculture and waste;

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9. Welcomes the announcement of the Commission’s Zero Pollution Action Plan; emphasises that air pollution is a burden that requires a holistic approach; alerts that any new measures will be worthless if air quality is not properly prioritised and mainstreamed in all EU policies, including EU emission source legislation, such as on climate, energy, transport, industry, agriculture and waste management, while ensuring better synergies between all policy areas; calls on the Commission and the Member States to cooperate more closely in all areas and at all levels in order to help local authorities achieve cleaner air;

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9 a. Notes with concern that while emissions of most air pollutants remain on a downward trend across the European Union, emissions of ammonia (NH3) from the agricultural sector continue to rise, posing a challenge for EU Member States in meeting EU air pollution limits; highlights that in urban

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areas ammonia emissions account for around 50% of the health impacts of air pollution, as ammonia is a key precursor to particulate matter; calls on the Commission and the Member States to use the reform of the EU common agricultural policy (CAP) and national Strategic Plans as an opportunity to fight air pollution from the agricultural sector;

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9 a. Considers that a holistic approach to combating air pollution is compatible with a case-by-case analysis of the specific characteristics of each pollutant, for example for ozone, a colourless and odorous gas, which is not a primary pollutant and the prevention of which requires measures to reduce precursors (NOx and VOCs) on a long-term basis;

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9 b. Regrets that methane emissions are not regulated under EU air pollution legislation and not specifically regulated under EU climate policy; calls for an ambitious legislative framework to tackle the methane emissions, including by setting binding reduction targets;

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Motion for a resolutionParagraph 9 c (new)


9 c. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to develop stringent EU car emissions standards for air pollutants (future Euro 7 standards for light-duty vehicles and Euro VII standards for heavy-duty vehicles), aligning them with WHO guidelines on air pollution in a technology-neutral manner which doesn’t discriminate between fuels; underlines that the new testing procedures for vehicles should be reviewed to broaden the scope of regulated pollutants measured, to increase their accuracy and effectiveness and to eliminate loopholes, thereby ensuring emission standards are indeed met under real driving conditions;

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Amendment 160Javi LópezMotion for a resolutionParagraph 9 d (new)


9 d. Recalls that the energy production and distribution sector is responsible for more than half of sulphur oxide (SOx) emissions and one fifth of nitrogen oxide (NOx) emissions in the 33 member countries of the European Environment Agency;

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Amendment 161Javi LópezMotion for a resolutionParagraph 9 e (new)


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mercury emissions to air in Europe for the foreseeable future; in this regard welcomes the commitments made by at least ten EU Member States to phase out coal; calls on the other Member States to phase out coal as an energy source by 2030 at the latest;

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Amendment 162Javi LópezMotion for a resolutionParagraph 9 f (new)


9 f. Points out that the European Green Deal aims to reduce the environmental impacts of the EU and that in view of industry’s important contribution to overall pressures on the environment, it must make an appropriate contribution to meeting this overall goal; welcomes in this regard the announced revision of the Industrial Emissions Directive (IED) to better address pollution from large industrial installations and to make them fully consistent with EU environment, climate, energy and circular economy policies; considers in this regard that it would be advantageous to include in the IED other sectors, limit the derogations to a minimum, adopt a consistent outcome-oriented approach of promoting the industrial activity with the least negative environmental impact and integrate provisions stimulating progress within the permitting phase or BREF determination;

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10. Urges the Commission and the Member States to strengthen all emissions legislation; underlines that reducing emissions at source is the only effective way to guarantee clean air; alerts that most Member States will not comply with their 2020 and 2030 emissions reduction commitments established under the NEC directive; stresses the need for stringent measures to reduce transport emissions, particularly road and maritime transport, aviation, industrial installations, agriculture and energy production;

10. Urges the Commission and the Member States to support studies on the impact of weather conditions on the development of air pollution and adapt the emissions legislation to new scientific findings;

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10. alerts that most Member States will not comply with their 2020 and 2030 emissions reduction commitments established under the NEC directive; regrets that almost all Member States have failed to implement sufficient measures to comply with their 2020 obligations; is concerned that compared to the latest available data of 2018, 10 Member States needed to reduce their ammonia emissions by up to 10% in less than 2 years and for PM2.5 and NOx, 6 and 5 Member States, respectively, needed to reduce their emissions by up to 30% or more to comply with the 2020 ceilings1a; calls on the Commission to rapidly start infringement procedures to enforce the emission reduction commitments; concurs with the findings of the Second Clean Air Outlook that the 15 Member States at risk of not complying with 2030 ammonia reduction commitments should take immediate additional action; calls on the Commission to start infringement procedures in case the national air pollution control programmes are not promptly aligned with the objectives of the

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Directive; stresses that, even if the 2030 NEC Directive objectives were met, there would still be 250.000 premature deaths due to air pollution and widespread exposure of sensitive ecosystems to excess nitrogen depositions; calls, therefore, on the Commission to revise the NEC Directive and strengthen its emission reduction commitments for 2030 and to also look beyond 2030, setting the target of zero anthropogenic emissions of pollutants by 2050; calls to add methane, mercury and black carbon to the list of pollutants covered by the NEC Directive; regrets the flexibility mechanism introduced under Article 5 of the NEC Directive; highlights that in 2018, 11 Member States requested adjustments to their national emission ceilings1b; is particularly concerned that Member States use the flexibility mechanism to hide NOx emissions of non-compliant diesel vehicles; calls on the Commission to limit the use of emission inventory adjustment to the strict minimum and to consider whether Member States have taken action to compensate for possible unforeseen emissions from certain sectors before applying for an adjustment of emission inventories;

_________________1a Second Clean Air Outlook, European Commission, 2021.1b European Parliament resolution of 13 March 2019 on a Europe that protects: Clean air for all.

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10. Urges the Commission and the 10. Urges the Commission and the

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Member States to strengthen all emissions legislation; underlines that reducing emissions at source is the only effective way to guarantee clean air; alerts that most Member States will not comply with their 2020 and 2030 emissions reduction commitments established under the NEC directive; stresses the need for stringent measures to reduce transport emissions, particularly road and maritime transport, aviation, industrial installations, agriculture and energy production;

Member States to assess all emissions legislation for their effectiveness and proportionality, underlines that reducing emissions at source is one effective way to guarantee clean air; points out that also other technical solutions should be taken into account; alerts that most Member States will not comply with their 2020 and 2030 emissions reduction commitments established under the NEC directive; stresses however that measures are currently underway and their effect should be waited for before considering a tightening of the new NEC directive; stresses the need for stringent measures to reduce emissions in all sectors like transport, aviation, industrial installations, buildings, agriculture and energy production; calls for a coherent approach in GHG and emission regulations; points out possible trade-offs between the reduction of CO2 and other air pollutants; stresses the principle of technology neutrality and other innovative solutions, as e.g. filtrations in vehicles and on streets; fleet renewal, and the like;

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10. Urges the Commission and the Member States to strengthen all emissions legislation; underlines that reducing emissions at source is the only effective way to guarantee clean air; alerts that most Member States will not comply with their 2020 and 2030 emissions reduction commitments established under the NEC directive; stresses the need for stringent measures to reduce transport emissions, particularly road and maritime transport, aviation, industrial installations, agriculture and energy production and the need to

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incorporate the EU air quality and emission standards into the trade policy to prevent transfer of emissions outside EU which would further exacerbate the effect of transboundary air pollution on the EU air quality while reducing the competitiveness of the EU companies;

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10. Urges the Commission and the Member States to strengthen all emissions legislation and to use their legal powers to ensure compliance; underlines that reducing emissions at source is the only effective way to guarantee clean air; alerts that most Member States will not comply with their 2020 and 2030 emissions reduction commitments established under the NEC directive; stresses the need for stringent measures to reduce transport emissions, particularly road and maritime transport, aviation, industrial installations, agriculture and energy production;

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10. Urges the Commission and the Member States to strengthen all emissions legislation; underlines that reducing emissions at source is the only effective way to guarantee clean air; alerts that most Member States will not comply with their 2020 and 2030 emissions reduction commitments established under the NEC directive; stresses the need for stringent

10. Urges the Commission and the Member States to strengthen all emissions legislation; underlines that reducing emissions at source is the only effective way to guarantee clean air; alerts that most Member States will not comply with their 2020 and 2030 emissions reduction commitments established under the NEC directive; stresses the need for stringent

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measures to reduce transport emissions, particularly road and maritime transport, aviation, industrial installations, agriculture and energy production;

measures to reduce transport emissions, particularly road and maritime transport, aviation, industrial installations, including intensive livestock sector, agriculture and energy production;

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10 a. Stresses the need for the EU to adopt appropriate and effective measures to regulate maritime transport; draws attention to the fact that port cities must deal with shipping if they are to improve their air quality, as ship emissions are typically significantly higher than those of road vehicles; remarks with concern that ships’ detrimental impact on air quality continues to increase as the sector grows; notes that port cities also face pollution from shipping, cranes, cruises and various transportation vehicles; calls on the Commission to urgently fulfil its commitment to regulate access for the most polluting ships to ports and oblige docked ships to use the available recharging and refuelling infrastructure, such as shore-side electricity, to decrease air polluting emissions, thereby protecting coastal areas and their populations; calls on the Commission and Member States to implement a ‘zero emission at berth standard’ in all European ports;

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Amendment 170Norbert Lins, Christine Schneider, Jens Gieseke, Ulrike Müller, Marlene Mortler, Stefan Berger, Andreas GlückMotion for a resolutionParagraph 10 a (new)


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10 a. Stresses that innovation and research in low-emission and emission-reducing technologies will help to reduce emissions in all sectors; urges the Commission to honour the principle of technology neutrality; highlights the positive impact of Euro5/6 on the improvement of NOx emissions; notes that fleet renewal will bring huge improvements to air quality; points out that even full electrification of the car fleet does not clear the air from particle matters (e.g. tyres and brakes abrasion); calls on the Commission to duly assess possible trade-offs between CO2 emissions and air quality before proposing new and additional regulations;

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Amendment 171Michal Wiezik, Stanislav PolčákMotion for a resolutionParagraph 10 a (new)


10 a. Expresses concern over the practice of constructing new industrial installations with a capacity just below the Industrial Emissions Directive thresholds to purposefully leave them outside the scope of the Directive; Further highlights that certain industrial livestock installations were intentionally left out of the scope of the IED to prevent red tape1a; Disagrees with the Commission and asks for an inclusion of a lower, meaningful minimum threshold for intensive rearing of poultry, pigs and additionally also cattle, as these are an important source of air, soil and water pollution;

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pollutants such as ammonia (a precursor to PM2.5) and thus have a negative impact on air quality. The Commission also explains that these activities were not included in the scope of the directive because of a "previous impact assessment", which found that the full IED permitting process was not appropriate for some of these activities (e.g. cattle) because of the red tape it would involve.

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Amendment 172Sven GiegoldMotion for a resolutionParagraph 10 a (new)


10 a. Urges the Commission and the Member States to strengthen all emissions regulation, underlines that reducing emissions at source is the only effective way to guarantee clean air; stresses the need for stringent measures for transport emissions, particularly road and maritime transport and aviation, industrial installations, agriculture and energy production; highlights that these measures must draw a clear pathway towards zero emissions and zero pollution from all these sectors;

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10 a. Insists on the conclusion of the Second Clean Air Outlook report of the Commission[1] that highlights the likely reduction of the number of premature deaths due to air pollution by around 55% in 2030 compared to 2005 if Member

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States implemented all measures set up under the existing EU legislation regulating sources of air pollution; [1]Brussels, 8.1.2021- COM(2021) 3 final;

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Amendment 174Catherine ChabaudMotion for a resolutionParagraph 10 a (new)


10 a. Stresses that emission control areas (ECAs) are essential tools to limit air pollution from shipping and contributes to tackling climate change, reducing the adverse effects on human health and marine biodiversity, calls therefore for the extension of ECAs to all EU seas;

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10a. Notes that evaluations of existing measures must take into account the long implementation deadlines of legislation such as the IED and MCP directives; recommends that the Commission mobilise additional financial support from existing funds where appropriate;

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Amendment 176Tiemo Wölken, Delara BurkhardtMotion for a resolutionParagraph 10 a (new)


10 a. Stresses the need for policies from

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all levels that enable sustainable transport modes such as walking, cycling, public transport and shared mobility, while ensuring co-existence with motorised transport;

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Amendment 177Sven GiegoldMotion for a resolutionParagraph 10 b (new)


10 b. stresses that European agriculture, responsible for about 50% of methane and 90% of ammonia emissions alone, is the sector with the least reduction in air pollutant emissions, which demonstrates that the current Common Agricultural Policy is in contradiction with EU clean air objectives and cannot be considered as EU emission source legislation; is concerned with the persistently high ammonia emissions, particularly from the storage and spreading of liquid manure and the use of artificial fertilizers in agriculture and intensive farming; points not only to the health damages caused by ammonia, but also to the very disruptive effects of ammonia on ecosystems, such as eutrophication and acidification, causing loss of biodiversity; calls for the introduction of monitoring requirements and of target values for ammonia concentrations, to be turned at later stage, if proven necessary, into limit values;

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Amendment 178Tiemo Wölken, Delara BurkhardtMotion for a resolutionParagraph 10 b (new)


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is far off track from reaching the goals on these emissions; urges the Commission and Member States to minimise ammonia emissions with adjustments in the CAP and particularly in Member States' strategic plans; asks the Commission to also look into options to mitigate these emissions with the Industrial Emissions Directive;

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Amendment 179Catherine ChabaudMotion for a resolutionParagraph 10 b (new)


10 b. Underlines that maritime transport participates to air pollution especially in port cities, calls therefore on the Commission and Member States to support and invest in the development of zero-emission ports such as recharging infrastructures, as it would ensure immediate health benefits to all citizens living in port and coastal areas;

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Amendment 180Sven GiegoldMotion for a resolutionParagraph 10 c (new)


10 c. Recalls that road transport, particularly diesel vehicles, is the main source of NOx in Europe; emphasises that, besides being among the air pollutants with the highest negative impacts on the human respiratory system, NOx is a major contributor to ecosystem damages, particularly through eutrophication and acidification, causing loss of biodiversity; deeply regrets that there are still 50 million Euro 5 and Euro 6 vehicles on European roads which can

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emit up to 20 times above the legal limits1a, contributing to NOx exceedances in more than 130 cities in the EU; calls for the swift withdrawal and, where possible, retrofit of non-compliant diesel cars, and stresses that these operations should be financed by non-compliant car manufacturers; stresses that the export of diesel vehicles without retrofitting the non-functioning emissions control system must be prevented; calls for the conclusion of an ambitious deal on Real Driving Emissions test measures; stresses that upcoming new EU emission standards should define a roadmap to zero-pollution and zero-emission road transport, regulating all pollutants; calls for the adoption of an end date for the sale of new petrol and diesel cars no later than 2030; calls for more ambitious EU zero-emission public procurement requirements, with the goal of ensuring 100% zero-emission vehicle fleets by 2030 at the latest; calls on local authorities to devise sustainable urban plans encouraging walking and cycling, the use of public transport, of shared, sustainable mobility solutions and of zero-emission vehicles, and discouraging car commuting; welcomes local initiatives such as Low Emission Zones, which should be enlarged to all areas with certain population density, and further developed into Zero Emission Zones; recalls that surface abrasion of catalytic converters results in the release of platinum, rhodium and palladium;

_________________1a Dirty diesels grow to 51 million across EU, as carmakers still put profit before clean air, Transport & Environment, 2019

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10 c. Stresses that combined transport of goods contributes to the reduction of transport emissions by promoting a shift from road freight transport to lower-emission transport modes, including zero-emission rivers corridors;

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Amendment 182Tiemo Wölken, Delara BurkhardtMotion for a resolutionParagraph 10 c (new)


10 c. Asks the Commission to evaluate all relevant sources of particulate matter and propose legislation where legal gaps exist, while also looking into co-benefits for other pollution dimensions, for example noise;

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Amendment 183Javi LópezMotion for a resolutionParagraph 10 c (new)


10 c. (new) Heading: Air Quality Plans

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Amendment 184Sven Giegold, Jutta PaulusMotion for a resolutionParagraph 10 d (new)


10 d. recalls that tyre wear generates more than 500,000 tonnes of microplastics in the EU per year and that more than 25,000 tonnes of these microplastics are released as PM10 into

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our air1a; recalls that tyres consist not only of rubber but also of a blend of different materials and chemicals, which can also include endocrine disruptors, carcinogens and mutagens, which, due to abrasion, ultimately end up in our nature and water cycles and can cause health threats; urges the Commission to adopt a delegated act amending Regulation (EU) 2020/740 as soon as possible, in order to include parameters or information requirements for tyre abrasion and mileage; urges the Commission to set binding abrasion standards for tyres and ban the most polluting tyres, as soon as reliable, accurate and reproducible methods to test and measure tyre abrasion and mileage are available for use by European or international standardisation organisations;

_________________1a Investigating options for reducing releases in the aquatic environment of microplastics emitted by (but not intentionally added in) products, ICF & Eunomia, 2018

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Amendment 185Tiemo Wölken, Delara BurkhardtMotion for a resolutionParagraph 10 d (new)


10 d. Asks the Commission to look into indoor air pollution consequences and possible legislative remedies for all relevant sources of indoor air pollution;

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Amendment 186Sven Giegold, Jutta PaulusMotion for a resolutionParagraph 10 e (new)


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10 e. highlights that air and waterborne transport are also important sources of air and noise pollution, adversely impacting citizens and the environment, particularly close to airports, ports and coastal areas; emphasises that air pollution from maritime transport is responsible for over 50 000 deaths annually in the EU and must therefore be further reduced1a; points out that a scientific study commissioned by the Commission concluded that without further action, maritime NOx emissions will likely match land-based NOx emissions within a decade1b, while another study has concluded that luxury cruise ships alone, a small segment of maritime transport, already emit more disease-causing sulphur oxide emissions than all of Europe's passenger cars in a year1c; calls for the strengthening of European climate and environmental legislation covering the maritime sector; demands to declare the Mediterranean Sea a nitrogen- and sulphur-emissions control area (NECA/SECA); calls on the Member States to strictly control NECA and SECA zones in their territorial waters; points out that land- and sea-bound emission measurements should be accompanied by satellite detection; calls on the Commission to further issue reduction requirements to seaborne air and climate pollutants, and requirements aiming for zero-emission ports; requests that any European measures aimed at reducing ship air pollution should also reduce GHG emissions, especially CO2 and methane;

_________________1a Brandt, J., Silver, J. D., and Frohn, L. M., ‘Assessment of Health-Cost Externalities of Air Pollution at the National Level using the EVA Model System. CEEH Scientific Report No 3’, 2011

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1b The potential for cost-effective air emission reductions from international shipping through designation of further Emission Control Areas in EU waters with focus on the Mediterranean Sea, IIASA, 20181c One corporation to pollute them all, Transport & Environment, 2018

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Amendment 187Sven GiegoldMotion for a resolutionParagraph 10 f (new)


10 f. Welcomes the announced revision of the Industrial Emissions Directive; notes that, while reductions of air pollutants have been achieved, industrial activities still contribute to emissions not compatible with the Zero Pollution ambition; recalls that the energy production and distribution sector is responsible for more than half of sulphur oxide (SOx) emissions and one fifth of nitrogen oxide (NOx) emissions in the 33 member countries of the European Environment Agency; recalls that 62 % of mercury emissions from EU industry come from coal-fired power plants1a; highlights that coal and lignite fired thermal combustion plants cause 20,000 premature deaths, as well as thousands of cases of chronic bronchitis and asthma, in Europe each year1b; recalls that metal production is responsible for substantial emissions of heavy metals to air, including 45% of lead emissions; notes that the damage from emissions from waste incineration and intensive rearing of pigs or poultry has increased since 20081c; calls on the Commission to fully align the Industrial Emissions Directive with the European Green Deal and Zero Pollution ambition and the EU’s climate objectives; calls on the Commission to

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require Member States to the existing BATs; encourages the Commission to revise BATs and align them with the Zero Pollution ambition; strongly regrets the limited information available on the implementation and enforcement of the Industrial Emissions Directive at a centralised EU and Member State level; calls on the Commission to amend this year the relevant Commission Implementing Decision 2018/1135 (IED reporting) and 2019/1741 (E-PRTR reporting) and to include in the revision of the Directive and the relevant Commission Implementing Decisions obligations for Member States to report information on non-compliance; regrets the limited knowledge available on the implementation of BAT conclusions into permit conditions; calls on the Commission and Member States to ensure permits and compliance information are publicly available online and free of charge; calls for better monitoring and more transparency in relation to industrial air pollutant data; highlights that derogations for emissions limit values are frequently granted for energy intensive installations including Manufacture of Glass, Cement, Lime and Magnesium Oxide Manufacturing Industries, Iron and Steel Production, and Combustion plants; regrets that more than 10% of Iron and Steel and Glass installations combined currently benefit from derogations under the Industrial Emissions Directive; considers these derogations indirect subsidies for non-renewable energy; calls for the revision of the Directive to ensure early and effective public participation in the permitting procedures; regrets that the Industrial Emissions Directive enables competent authorities to grant derogations for emission limit values for cement kilns co-incinerating waste often resulting in emissions of SO2 and TOC orders of magnitude above the limits values set in the Directive; stresses that the incineration of waste must not lead to

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higher emissions; calls for the revision of the Industrial Emissions Directive to phase out any derogations for the incineration of waste; calls for a more stricter application of derogations; calls on the Commission to evaluate the extension of the Directive to additional sectors, particularly highly polluting ones, such as intensive cattle and mixed farms, mining, and aquaculture, and to lower-size installations, to capture more industrial emissions; notes that the evaluation of the Directive finds that the exclusion of energy efficiency and GHG requirements, is a gap in the scope of the Directive; welcomes the Commission intention to extend the Directive to new pollutants, such as methane; calls to consider also other toxic and polluting substances such as formaldehyde;

_________________1a European Parliament resolution of 13 March 2019 on a Europe that protects: Clean air for all1b Mind The Gap report, European Environmental Bureau, 20201c Support to the evaluation of the Industrial Emissions Directive, European Commission, 2020

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11. Notes that Air Quality Plans (AQPs), a key requirement of the AAQ Directives in cases when Member States do not comply with air quality standards, are often ineffective in terms of delivering their expected results; calls on the Commission to establish a set of minimum requirements and share best practices for both the drafting and implementation of

11. Notes that Air Quality Plans (AQPs), a key requirement of the AAQ Directives in cases when Member States do not comply with air quality standards, are often ineffective in terms of delivering their expected results; calls on the Commission to immediately provide guidance to Member States on how to prepare their Plans, in the form of an

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AQPs; implementing act in accordance with Article 28 of Directive 2008/50/EC, without waiting for the revision of the AAQ Directives, as announced in the Fitness Check and in the Green Deal Communication; encourages the Commission to also share best practices for the production and implementation of the Plans; calls on the Commission, in the framework of the revision of the AAQ Directives, to establish a set of minimum requirements for AQPs, building inter alia on the implementing act, to make sure AQPs set time-bound action which is commensurate with the pollution problem they need to address and to guarantee that there is enough funding to carry out the planned action and include reliable reduction calculations that can be used to measure implementation, as well as an automatic mechanism of further measures should the expected pollution reduction not materialise; encourages local authorities to implement, including as part of their Air Quality Plans, information campaigns and incentive schemes for building renovations and the replacement of old, inefficient and polluting residential heating and cooling systems - responsible for large amounts of emissions of CO, PM, benzo(a)pyrene (BaP), black carbon and other air pollutants - with renewable energy-based solutions for residual energy demand, where possible at district level; calls on Member States to set out a roadmap to phase out fossil fuel-based heating and cooling technologies as part of their National Energy and Climate Plans;

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11. Notes that Air Quality Plans (AQPs), a key requirement of the AAQ Directives in cases when Member States do not comply with air quality standards, are often ineffective in terms of delivering their expected results; calls on the Commission to establish a set of minimum requirements and share best practices for both the drafting and implementation of AQPs;

11. Notes that Air Quality Plans (AQPs), a key requirement of the AAQ Directives in cases when Member States do not comply with air quality standards, could be better targeted; calls on the Commission to establish a set of minimum requirements and share best practices for both the drafting and implementation of AQPs; points out that more harmonisation and comparable and proportionate measures in all member states would increase the acceptance of those measures; recalls that AQPs are best done locally as to take into account local situations;

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11. Notes that Air Quality Plans (AQPs), a key requirement of the AAQ Directives in cases when Member States do not comply with air quality standards, could be better targeted to deliver the expected results; calls on the Commission to share best practices for the drafting and better incentivise the implementation of AQPs, which are best realized by municipal and local authorities given the localised nature of the drivers and consequences of air pollution;

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11. Notes that Air Quality Plans (AQPs), a key requirement of the AAQ Directives in cases when Member States do

11. Notes that Air Quality Plans (AQPs), a key requirement of the AAQ Directives in cases when Member States do

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not comply with air quality standards, are often ineffective in terms of delivering their expected results; calls on the Commission to establish a set of minimum requirements and share best practices for both the drafting and implementation of AQPs;

not comply with air quality standards, are often ineffective in terms of delivering their expected results; calls on the Commission to support the Member States in implementing the AQPs and to promote the sharing of best practices;

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11. Notes that Air Quality Plans (AQPs), a key requirement of the AAQ Directives in cases when Member States do not comply with air quality standards, are often ineffective in terms of delivering their expected results; calls on the Commission to establish a set of minimum requirements and share best practices for both the drafting and implementation of AQPs; considers that the current lengthy production of the AQPs puts at risk their effectivity and believes that AQPs should

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focus on short and mid-term measures that are result oriented and tackle emissions from identified main pollution sources;

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11. Notes that Air Quality Plans (AQPs), a key requirement of the AAQ Directives in cases when Member States do not comply with air quality standards, are often ineffective in terms of delivering their expected results; calls on the Commission to establish a set of minimum requirements and share best practices for both the drafting and implementation of AQPs, giving preference to natural methods of improving air quality such as maintaining and introducing greenery in cities and elsewhere;

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11. Notes that Air Quality Plans (AQPs), a key requirement of the AAQ Directives in cases when Member States do not comply with air quality standards, are often ineffective in terms of delivering their expected results; calls on the Commission to establish a set of minimum requirements and share best practices for both the drafting and implementation of AQPs and to impose penalties on polluters who fail to comply with European requirements;

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12. Regrets the fact that the AAQ Directive neither requires Member States to report on the implementation of AQPs to the Commission nor to update them when new measures are adopted or when the progress is insufficient; calls on the Commission to establish a yearly reporting obligation for the implementation of AQPs;

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12. Notes members states produce public annual reports for all pollutants covered by this Directive and report yearly to the Commission according to Art 27; regrets that the AAQ Directive neither requires Member States to report on the implementation of AQPs to the Commission nor to update them when new measures are adopted or when the progress is insufficient; calls on the Commission to establish a yearly reporting obligation for the implementation of AQPs without increasing bureaucracy; suggests a more pragmatic approach which drives the trend in a positive way, by providing incentives rather than obligations;

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12. Points out that the Commission does not analyse nor give any feedback to the AQPs, especially their measures, reported by Member States; notes that proper and critical feedback to the reported AQPs could help Member States to design better AQPs with more effective measures and it could prevent noncompliance with air quality standards; regrets the fact that the AAQ Directive neither requires Member States to report on the implementation of AQPs to the Commission nor to update them when new measures are adopted or when the progress is insufficient; calls on the Commission to establish a reporting obligation for the implementation of AQPs;

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12. Regrets the fact that the AAQ Directive neither requires Member States to report on the implementation of AQPs to the Commission nor to update them when new measures are adopted or when the progress is insufficient; calls on the Commission, in the framework of the upcoming revision of the AAQ Directives, to attribute itself the power to evaluate the AQPs and to establish a yearly reporting obligation for the implementation of the AQPs;

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12. Regrets the fact that the AAQ Directive neither requires Member States to report on the implementation of AQPs to the Commission nor to update them when new measures are adopted or when the progress is insufficient; calls on the Commission to establish a yearly reporting obligation for the implementation of AQPs, to ensure that Member States’ measures are quick and effective in improving air quality;

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Amendment 202Marek Paweł BaltMotion for a resolutionParagraph 12 – point a (new)


(a) Calls Member States to harmonise maximum values for air pollutants

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throughout the EU taking into account that due to the wide differences between national standards, citizens of the countries with too liberal ones are suffering from harmful health effects. Given the economic differences between EU countries and the need to adapt to change, an appropriate transitional period would be recommended;

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12a. Notes that Member States must have the possibility to implement existing AQPs; notes that changes to plans, legal frameworks and monitoring obligations also create significant costs, and that new financial instruments may be necessary to cover those costs;

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12 b. (new) Heading: Enforcement of the Ambient Air Quality Directives

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13. Alerts that as of October 2019, 32 infringement procedures against 20

13. Alerts that, at the time of writing, 31 infringement procedures against 18

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Member States remained pending; considers that persistent exceedances of air quality standards by Member States indicate their lack of commitment to adopting more effective measures, and the ineffectiveness of the current enforcement procedure; urges the Commission to review the current enforcement procedure for the AAQ Directives;

Member States are open in relation to the implementation of the AAQ Directives; highlights that these include 13 infringement procedures because of PM10 emissions above the European limit values, 11 because of NO2 emissions and 1 because of SO2 emissions; notes that 6 additional infringement procedures are open because of failures to implement monitoring requirements; notes that the PM10 and SO2 limit values were to be met as of 2005; recognises that some of these infringement procedures are ongoing since 2009; highlights that so far, however, no Member State has been condemned to the payment of financial penalties; highlights that despite ongoing infringement procedures, pollution concentration exceedances continue today; notes that for 2019, 17 Member States reported exceedances of EU air quality standards for NO2, 14 Member States reported exceedances for PM10, 4 reported exceedances for PM2.5 and 1 for SO2; is concerned by the lack of enforcement of the NEC Directive; alerts that since 2010 no infringement procedures were opened with regard to emissions above the ceilings set by the NEC Directive, even though 3 Member States never reported NH3 emissions below their respective ceiling; considers that the persistent exceedances of air quality standards by Member States implies their lack of commitment to take more effective measures to protect their citizens’ health and the environment, in spite of the existing legal obligations; highlights that the long delays before an infringement procedure is launched by the European Commission and the amount of time elapsing between the various infringement procedure steps are making EU enforcement ineffective; calls on the Commission to take legal action as soon as it becomes aware that EU air quality laws are not being implemented and to swiftly follow up with Court referrals and sanctions when violations are established; recalls its observation of

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16 January 2020 that procedures have to be more efficient in the field of environmental infringements; is concerned that the Commission’s Directorate General for Environment currently has 23 staff working on the implementation of EU environmental law in 27 Member States; considers this insufficient to ensure proper enforcement; calls on the Commission to make available the necessary financial and human resources to ensure swift follow-up of non-compliance; calls on the Commission to regularly produce clear and comprehensive overviews of the open infringement procedures and to publish without delays its communication exchanges with the non-compliant Member States;

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13. Alerts that as of October 2019, 32 infringement procedures against 20 Member States remained pending; considers that persistent exceedances of air quality standards by Member States indicate their lack of commitment to adopting more effective measures, and the ineffectiveness of the current enforcement procedure; urges the Commission to review the current enforcement procedure for the AAQ Directives;

13. Alerts that as of October 2019, 32 infringement procedures against 20 Member States remained pending; considers that persistent exceedances of air quality standards by Member States indicate not only their lack of commitment to adopting more effective measures, but also that the problem of air quality is an extremely complex issue, with the solutions requiring action that interferes deeply with production methods, transport and lifestyles and often involves significant investment and unpopular decisions;

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13. Points out that, as of October 2019, 32 infringement procedures against 20 Member States remained pending; considers that persistent exceedances of air quality standards by Member States might indicate failure to implement the directives;

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13. Alerts that as of October 2019, 32 infringement procedures against 20 Member States remained pending; urges the Commission to review the current enforcement procedure for the AAQ Directives;

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13. Alerts that as of October 2019, 32 infringement procedures against 20 Member States remained pending; considers that persistent exceedances of air quality standards by Member States

13. Alerts that as of February 2021, 31 infringement procedures against 18 Member States remained pending; considers that persistent exceedances of air quality standards by Member States

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indicate their lack of commitment to adopting more effective measures, and the ineffectiveness of the current enforcement procedure; urges the Commission to review the current enforcement procedure for the AAQ Directives;

indicate their lack of commitment to adopting more effective measures, and the ineffectiveness of the current enforcement procedure; urges the Commission to review the current enforcement procedure for the AAQ Directives;

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13. Alerts that as of October 2019, 32 infringement procedures against 20 Member States remained pending; considers that persistent and systemic1a exceedances of air quality standards by Member States indicate their lack of commitment to adopting more effective measures, and the ineffectiveness of the current enforcement procedure; urges the Commission to review the current enforcement procedure for the AAQ Directives;

_________________1a e.g. the referrals to the Court of Justice in the December 2020 infringement package highlight systemic and continuous exceedance going on for years: in this particular case in one member state between 2005-2019/(with the exception of year 2013) and 2015-2019 in the case of another

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13 b. (new) Heading: Improving public information, awareness and involvement

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14. Considers that public information and awareness have a critical role in addressing air pollution; draws attention to the fact that Member States, regions and cities define air quality indices differently, and urges the Commission and Member States to establish a standardised air quality classification system applicable across the EU;

14. Considers that public information and awareness have a critical role in addressing air pollution; calls on the Commission, the Member States and the relevant regional and local authorities to undertake awareness-raising campaigns on the benefits of better air and programmes to facilitate investment, both industrial and consumer, in improving air quality;

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14. Considers that public information and awareness have a critical role in addressing air pollution; draws attention to the fact that Member States, regions and cities define air quality indices differently and that air pollution data are therefore not comparable among the Member States;

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14. Considers that public information and awareness have a critical role in

14. Considers that public information and awareness have a critical role in

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addressing air pollution; draws attention to the fact that Member States, regions and cities define air quality indices differently, and urges the Commission and Member States to establish a standardised air quality classification system applicable across the EU;

facilitating direct individual involvement in measures to to improve air quality and in addressing air pollution; draws attention to the fact that Member States, regions and cities define air quality indices differently, and urges the Commission and Member States to establish a standardised air quality classification system applicable across the EU;

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14. Considers that public information and awareness have a critical role in addressing air pollution; draws attention to the fact that Member States, regions and cities define air quality indices differently, and that information and alert thresholds are currently missing for some pollutants; urges the Commission and Member States to establish a standardised air quality public communication across the EU;

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15. Stresses that information on the possible health effects of air pollution provided by Member States is scarce, unclear and not easily accessible for the public; calls on the Commission and Member States to launch public information campaigns on topics such as different types of air pollutants and their impact on human health or current local levels of air pollution, and to publish rankings of the best and least progress

15. Stresses that the Member States are responsible for making available information on the possible health effects of air pollution and making air quality data publicly accessible;

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made by air quality zones;

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15. Stresses that information on the possible health effects of air pollution provided by Member States is scarce, unclear and not easily accessible for the public; calls on the Commission and Member States to launch public information campaigns on topics such as different types of air pollutants and their impact on human health or current local levels of air pollution, and to publish rankings of the best and least progress made by air quality zones;

15. Stresses that accessible, objective information on air quality is being provided to the public in near-real time by the EEA based on Member States’ reporting of validated, up-to-date data1a; calls for further harmonisation of air quality information presentation at all geographical scales across Member States and regions of the EU, including on progress-made and on possible health effects, where adequate;

_________________1a 2019 COM Fitness Check of the AAQ Directives, SWD(2019) 428 final

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15. Stresses that there are positive trends in the practical implementation of Member States’ obligations under the AAQ Directives in terms of informing the public about the state of air quality; stresses that in some cases information on the possible health effects of air pollution provided by Member States can be scarce, unclear and not easily accessible for the public; calls on the Commission and Member States, where appropriate, to launch new or improve existing public information campaigns on topics such as

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different types of air pollutants and their impact on human health or current local levels of air pollution, and to take greater account of grassroots initiatives, which are increasingly highlighting local air quality problems;

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15. Stresses that information on the possible health effects of air pollution provided by Member State is scarce, unclear and hard to find; calls on the Commission and Member States to ensure easy access to real-time, accurate information on air quality, to launch public information campaigns on topics such as different types of air pollutants and their impact on human health or the existing levels of air pollution in the territory, including information targeted to vulnerable groups, and to publish rankings of the best and worst progress made by air quality zones;

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15. Stresses that information on the possible health effects of air pollution provided by Member States is scarce, unclear and not easily accessible for the public; calls on the Commission and Member States to launch public information campaigns on topics such as different types of air pollutants and their impact on human health or current local

15. Stresses that information on the possible health effects of air pollution provided by Member States is scarce, unclear and not easily accessible for the public; calls on the Commission and Member States to launch public information campaigns on topics such as different types of air pollutants and their impact on human health or current local

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levels of air pollution, and to publish rankings of the best and least progress made by air quality zones;

levels of air pollution;

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15. Stresses that information on the possible health effects of air pollution provided by Member States is scarce, unclear and not easily accessible for the public; calls on the Commission and Member States to launch public information campaigns on topics such as different types of air pollutants and their impact on human health or current local levels of air pollution, and to publish rankings of the best and least progress made by air quality zones; believes that awareness campaigns of the devastating effects of air pollution next to relevant pollution sources such as gas stations, airports or seaports, and/or the installation of air quality displays could also improve public awareness and information and prompt a change in behaviours and patterns that can contribute to air quality;

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15. Stresses that information on the possible health effects of air pollution provided by Member States is scarce, unclear and not easily accessible for the public; calls on the Commission and Member States to launch public

15. Stresses that information on the possible health effects of air pollution provided by Member States is scarce, unclear and not easily accessible for the public; calls on the Commission and Member States to launch updated public

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information campaigns on topics such as different types of air pollutants and their impact on human health or current local levels of air pollution, and to publish rankings of the best and least progress made by air quality zones;

information campaigns on topics such as different types of air pollutants and their impact on human health or current local levels of air pollution, and to publish rankings of the best and least progress made by air quality zones;

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15 a. Calls on the Commission and Member States to implement and promote tools to encourage public participation in the implementation of the AAQ Directives, such as the mandatory development by Member States of an online tool or/and app that informs citizens about air quality and its impact on human health and also allows them to request air monitoring stations or sampling points, report on air quality violations or provide feedback to the Commission on issues related to Member States actions on air quality;

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Amendment 224Tudor CiuhodaruMotion for a resolutionParagraph 15 a (new)


15a. Urges the Commission to introduce an annual award for cities or regions that have taken the most effective measures to reduce air pollution, producing visible and tangible results, in order to encourage a more more active and efficient approach by local and national authorities and to popularise these measures at European level;

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Amendment 225Tudor CiuhodaruMotion for a resolutionParagraph 15 b (new)


15b. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to continue to support the forums and encourage consultations with other countries in a bid to identify effective solutions and facilitate the implementation of European, national and local policies seeking to achieve acceptable air quality standards;

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16. Urges the Commission to update the AAQ Directives to include explicit provisions that guarantee the right of citizens to justice in line with the Aarhus Convention;

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16. Urges the Commission continuously to update the AAQ Directives in accordance with the latest scientific findings;

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16. Points out that in October 2020 the Commission has presented a proposal for a revision of the Aarhus Regulation; stresses that all matters related to the Aarhus Convention should be dealt with in the Aarhus Regulation directly;

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16. Expresses gratitude and appreciation to the civil society for the high number of cases brought in front of national courts for exceedances of AAQ limit values and lacking or inadequate AQPs, contributing to the enforcement of the Directives; regrets, however, the difficulties faced by civil society to access justice in certain Member States in the absence of explicit provisions within the Directives; urges the Commission to update the AAQ Directives to include explicit provisions that guarantee the right of citizens to justice in line with the Aarhus Convention; calls also the Commission, in line with the Roadmap for the Inception Impact Assessment, to introduce criteria for effective penalties and for compensation of pollution damages to individuals, as incentives to national and local authorities to fully implement the Directives;

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Amendment 230

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Frédérique Ries, Martin Hojsík, Nils Torvalds, María Soraya Rodríguez RamosMotion for a resolutionParagraph 16



16. Urges the Commission to update the AAQ Directives to include explicit provisions that guarantee the right of citizens to justice in line with the Aarhus Convention and calls on the Council to facilitate its implementation which is of particular relevance where the Council is acting in its legislative capacity;

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16 b. (new) Heading: Other recommendations

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