02001L0081 — EN — 01.07.2018 — 006.001

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►B DIRECTIVE 2001/81/EC OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL of 23 October 2001 on national emission ceilings for certain atmospheric pollutants (OJ L 309 27.11.2001, p. 22)

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DIRECTIVE 2001/81/EC OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL

of 23 October 2001

on national emission ceilings for certain atmospheric pollutants







Article 1

Objective

The aim of this Directive is to limit emissions of acidifying and eutrophying pollutants and ozone precursors in order to improve the protection in the Community of the environment and human health against risks of adverse effects from acidification, soil eutrophication and ground-level ozone and to move towards the long-term objectives of not exceeding critical levels and loads and of effective protection of all people against recognised health risks from air pollution by establishing national emission ceilings, taking the years 2010 and 2020 as benchmarks, and by means of successive reviews as set out in Articles 4 and 10.

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Article 4

National emission ceilings

1. By the year 2010 at the latest, Member States shall limit their annual national emissions of the pollutants sulphur dioxide (SO2), nitrogen oxides (NOx), volatile organic compounds (VOC) and ammonia (NH3) to amounts not greater than the emission ceilings laid down in Annex I, taking into account any modifications made by Community measures adopted following the reports referred to in Article 9.

2. Member States shall ensure that the emission ceilings laid down in Annex I are not exceeded in any year after 2010.

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ANNEX I







NATIONAL EMISSION CEILINGS FOR SO2, NOx, VOC AND NH3, TO BE ATTAINED BY 2010 (1) Country SO2 Kilotonnes NOx Kilotonnes VOC Kilotonnes NH3 Kilotonnes Belgium 99 176 139 74 Bulgaria (2) 836 247 175 108 Czech Republic 265 286 220 80 Denmark 55 127 85 69 Germany 520 1 051 995 550 Estonia 100 60 49 29 Ireland 42 65 55 116 Greece 523 344 261 73 Spain 746 847 662 353 France 375 810 1 050 780 Croatia (3) 70 87 90 30 Italy 475 990 1 159 419 Cyprus 39 23 14 9 Latvia 101 61 136 44 Lithuania 145 110 92 84 Luxembourg 4 11 9 7 Hungary 500 198 137 90 Malta 9 8 12 3 Netherlands 50 260 185 128 Austria 39 103 159 66 Poland 1 397 879 800 468 Portugal 160 250 180 90 Romania (2) 918 437 523 210 Slovenia 27 45 40 20 Slovakia 110 130 140 39 Finland 110 170 130 31 Sweden 67 148 241 57 United Kingdom 585 1 167 1 200 297 EU 28 8 367 9 090 8 938 4 324 (1) These national emission ceilings are designed with the aim of broadly meeting the interim environmental objectives set out in Article 5. Meeting those objectives is expected to result in a reduction of soil eutrophication to such an extent that the area of the Union with depositions of nutrient nitrogen in excess of the critical loads will be reduced by about 30 % compared with the situation in 1990. (2) These national emission ceilings are temporary and are without prejudice to the review according to Article 10 of this Directive, which is to be completed in 2008. (3) The national emission ceilings for Croatia are to be attained by the date of its accession to the Union.

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