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

Adopting the report by Mrs Pollack, the European Parliament approved the proposal subject to the following amendments: - the public should have access to the information which the Commission sends the Member States. The data supplied by the Commission should be accessible by computer link on request; - the Commission or the European Environment Agency should draft a report containing general information for the public. This report should include a summary of the data collected, an analysis of the number of times and days EU guidelines were exceeded at each measurement site and an outline of the underlying trends in air quality in the EU; - Member States should make an effort to supply raw data and statistics for all measurement stations; - Annex 1 to the proposal should be divided into two parts, the first part containing a list of substances to be measured under the framework directive on ambient air quality and the second part containing the pollutants not covered by the directive to the extent that they are already being measured in the Member States; - the decision would apply as of 1 October 1995 and would be revised two years later.�