Scientists and technicians call for a paradigm shift for Spain to comply with the new European air quality directive



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## Scientists and technicians call for a paradigm shift for Spain to comply with the new European air quality directive

28/06/2024 |
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The Summer University (Universitat d'Estiu) of the Universitat Jaume I resumes its activities with the seminar "Air Quality in Spain. Millán Millán" at the Termas Marinas El Palasiet Hotel in Benicàssim, focusing on the new European directive on air quality, which is expected to be published in the autumn and which the countries of the European Union will have to comply with by 2030. The inauguration was attended by Carmen Lázaro, Vice-Rector for Culture, Languages and Society; María del Mar Viana, Deputy Director General of Clean Air and Industrial Sustainability of the Ministry of Ecological Transition and Demographic Challenge; and Jorge Blanco, Director General of Environmental Quality and Education of the Generalitat Valenciana, accompanied by the two course directors, Xavier Querol and Eliseo Monfort.

The meeting began with a tribute to Millán Millán, founder and *alma mater* of the Centre for Environmental Studies of the Mediterranean (CEAM) and internationally renowned scientific disseminator, who died last January. The organisers of the seminar presented a commemorative plaque to the director of the CEAM, Amalia Muñoz, and one of the round tables was dedicated to a review of his work. During the opening ceremony, Carmen Lázaro, referring to the new European directive on air quality, argued that "we all have to commit ourselves in all areas" and also referred to the need to focus on "education and raising public awareness". For her part, the representative of the Ministry, María del Mar Viana, believes that "it is necessary to maintain dialogue and cooperation with all the actors involved in order to meet the challenges posed by the new regulations".

The new European directive provides, among other things, for the reduction by half of the immission values, i.e. the levels of air pollution that citizens breathe and that are harmful to their health. In this sense, the new parameters require that the values of PM10 respirable particles be less than 20 micrograms/m3 in 2030, which means that a paradigm shift is needed to achieve the objectives, given that the current annual limit is 40 micrograms/m3. In view of this new situation, the representative of the Ministry of Ecological Transition and Demographic Challenge, David Cáceres, pointed out during the round table discussion entitled "The challenges of applying and complying with the new European air directive" that "the new directive will mean revising and updating the short-term framework action plan and the regional air plans". The technician explained that if the current dynamic continues, by 2030 there will be 81 areas in Spain that will not comply with the limit values for harmful particulate matter.

In this regard, the co-director of the seminar and CSIC researcher, Xavier Querol, said that "we have five years to reach the limits required by the new regulation, a regulation that includes the demands of the WHO and aims to reduce the effects of respirable particles on public health". Querol, who took part in the round table on "The new parameters of air quality", believes that one of the challenges in Spain to comply with European regulations, "although there has been a significant improvement in recent years, is to limit or regulate vehicle traffic, especially in large cities, where the problem is the greatest, as a large number of European capitals have already done".

Studies show that 80% of the Spanish population would be affected by non-compliance with the EU directive if no action is taken. In this context, one of the ministry's technical experts, Natalia Alonso, argued that another challenge is to reduce the pollution generated in homes through the use of cleaning products, cosmetics, paints and solvents, which account for 30% of emissions of volatile organic compounds (they are one of the generators of tropospheric ozone, one of the main pollutants).

This biennial meeting, organised by the scientific community in collaboration with the Universitat Jaume I, will continue tomorrow with the participation of experts and technicians from various regional governments, researchers from the CSIC and various universities, as well as representatives from the Ministry of Ecological Transition and Demographic Challenge.

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