The overall objective of the project is to improve air quality by supporting the implementation of the air quality related legislation including Directive 2008/50/EC on ambient air quality and cleaner air for Europe and Directive 2004/107/EC relating to arsenic, cadmium, mercury, nickel and polycyclic hydrocarbons in ambient air. Implementation of emission related legislation will be supported inc
luding, for example, Directive 2001/81/EC on national emission ceilings for certain atmospheric pollutants and Directive 2001/80/EC on the limitation of emissions of certain pollutants into the air from large combustion plants. The mandatory results to be achieved with the project activities are:
- Strengthened capacities for the central environmental laboratory in the field of air quality measurements, emission measurements and chemical analyses related to air pollution;
- Strengthened capacities for performing emission inventories and dispersion modeling including exposure modeling;
- Air quality data management and reporting of air quality related information and use of air quality information to support environmental policy and planning and implementation of Clean Air Action Plans further improved;
- Strengthened capacities for health impact assessment of air pollution to human health.
