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The Air Quality Standards (Amendment) Regulations 1995

S.I. 1995/3146 · Made 4 December 1995

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

Made 4th December 1995

Laid 8th December 1995

Coming into force 31st December 1995

The Secretary of State for the Environment, as respects England, the Secretary of State for Wales, as respects Wales, and the Secretary of State for Scotland as respects Scotland, being designatedf1 Ministers for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972f2 in relation to the control of air pollution, in exercise of the powers conferred upon them by section 2(2) and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby make the following Regulations—

Annotations to the whole text

Footnotes

f1

S.I. 1988/785.

f2

1972 c. 68.

Contents

  1. 1Citation, commencement and interpretation
  2. 2Amendment etc. of provisions in the 1989 Regulations
  3. Signature
  4. Explanatory note

1Citation, commencement and interpretation

(1)

These Regulations may be cited as the Air Quality Standards (Amendment) Regulations 1995 and shall come into force on 31st December 1995.

(2)

These regulations amend the Air Quality Standards Regulations 1989f1 (“the 1989 Regulations”) which implemented Council Directives 80/779/EEC, on air quality limit values and guide values for sulphur dioxide and suspended particulatesf2, and 85/203/EEC, on air quality standards for nitrogen dioxidef3.

2Amendment etc. of provisions in the 1989 Regulations

(1)

Regulation 2(2) of, and the Schedule to, the 1989 Regulations (areas temporarily exempted from the application of the limit values for suspended particulates) are hereby revoked.

(2)

In regulation 6 of the 1989 Regulations (limit value for nitrogen dioxide in the atmosphere)—

(a)

after the words “to ensure that”, there shall be inserted the words “throughout Great Britain”; and

(b)

for the words “table in Annex I to”, there shall be substituted the words “first indent of Article 2 of”.

Signature

John Gummer

Secretary of State for the Environment

27th November 1995

William Hague

Secretary of State for Wales

29th November 1995

M. Forsyth

Secretary of State for Scotland

4th December 1995

Explanatory note

(This note does not form part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Air Quality Standards Regulations 1989 (“the 1989 Regulations”).

Regulation 2(1) of the 1989 Regulations implemented in Great Britain provisions of Council Directive 80/779/EEC on air quality limit values and guide values for sulphur dioxide and suspended particulates. Regulation 2(2) of the 1989 Regulations provided that regulation 2(1), insofar as it applied to suspended particulates, would not apply to the areas specified in the Schedule until 1st April 1993. That temporary exemption being spent, regulation 2(2) and the Schedule are now revoked.

Regulation 6 of the 1989 Regulations implemented in Great Britain provisions of Council Directive 85/203/EEC on air quality standards for nitrogen dioxide. These Regulations amend the implementation of the definition of “limit value”in Article 2 of that Directive.