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performance monitoring stations in each participating State and participating Territory must be nominated as trend stations.
 (2) The number of performance monitoring stations to be nominated as trend stations must be sufficient to monitor and assess long term changes in ambient air quality in different parts of the jurisdiction.
 (3) A trend station must be operated in the same location for one or more decades.
16 Monitoring methods
 (1) Subject to subsections (2) and (3), the Australian Standard Methods set out in Schedule 3 must be used as reference methods for monitoring pollutants in the air.
 (2) Where an Australian Standard Method has not yet been developed for a monitoring method, appropriate internationally recognised methods or standards may be used that provide equivalent information for assessment purposes.
 (3) Other monitoring methods may be used if:
 (a) calibration and validation studies show:
 (i) the accuracy and precision of the other method; and
 (ii) the method can be compared with the relevant Australian Standard Method; and
 (b) the equipment used is calibrated to the standard required by the equipment manufacturer; and
 (c) the equipment provides equivalent information for assessment purposes.
17 Evaluation of performance against standards and goal
 (1) Each participating jurisdiction must evaluate its annual performance as set out in this section.
 (2) For each performance monitoring station in the participating jurisdiction or assessment in accordance with paragraph 11(b) there must be:
 (a) a determination of the exposed population in the region or sub-region represented by the station; and
 (b) an evaluation of performance against the standards and goal of this Measure, other than in relation to table 2 of Schedule 2, as:
 (i) meeting; or
 (ii) not meeting; or
 (iii) not demonstrated.
 (2A) Each participating jurisdiction must evaluate and report population exposures to:
 (a) particles as PM2.5 from June 2018; and
 (b) nitrogen dioxide and photochemical oxidants (as ozone) from June 2021.
Note   To ensure national consistency, evaluation and reporting shall be undertaken in accordance with any procedures or methods agreed by participating jurisdictions.
 (3) Participating jurisdictions may provide an evaluation of a region as a whole against the standards using appropriate methodologies that provide equivalent information for assessment purposes.
 (4) Performance must be evaluated as 'not demonstrated' if there has been no monitoring or no assessment by an approved alternative method as provided in section 11.
18 Reporting
 (1) Each participating jurisdiction must submit a report on its compliance with the Measure, other than in relation to table 2 of Schedule 2, in an approved form to Council by the 30 June next following each reporting year.
 (2) In this section reporting year means a year ending on 31 December.
 (2A) The report must include:
 (a) the evaluations and