Air quality: improvement of comparability and transparency at European level (reduction of emissions)

The Commission's amended proposal incorporates the amendments by the European Parliament concerning: - the introduction of a distinction between pollutants covered by the ambient air quality directives, for which the exchange of information is compulsory, and those which are not covered and for which an exchange of information is only required where measurements are taken by the Member States (the reference to the obligation to measure substances at a later stage has been deleted); - making data and computer programmes for consulting databases available to the public; - changes to the dates of the entry into force of the enacting terms proposed; - the preparation of reports on trends in air quality in Europe and on cases where limit values are exceeded; - an assessment of the system after 5 years (rather than 2). However, the Commission did not include the amendment requiring all measuring stations in the Member States to participate in the exchange of information.�