# The Air Quality Standards (Scotland) Regulations 2010, Regulation 18: Duties in relation to target values


(1) The Scottish Ministers must ensure that all necessary measures not entailing disproportionate costs are taken to ensure that concentrations of PM2.5, ozone, arsenic, cadmium, nickel and benzo(a)pyrene do not exceed the target values in Schedule 3.
(2) The Scottish Ministers must draw up a list of all zones where the target values for arsenic, cadmium, nickel or benzo(a)pyrene are met, and in relation to those zones must maintain the levels of those pollutants below those target values and must endeavour to achieve the best ambient air quality compatible with sustainable development.
(3) The Scottish Ministers must draw up a list of all zones in which the target values for arsenic, cadmium, nickel or benzo(a)pyrene are exceeded, and in doing so must identify the areas where those values are exceeded and the relevant sources of pollutants.
(4) In relation to the zones to which paragraph (3) applies, the measures referred to in paragraph (1) must be directed in particular at the predominant sources of emission which have been identified, and where applicable must entail the application of best available techniques in accordance with the Pollution Prevention and Control (Scotland) Regulations 2012.
(5) In zones where the level of ozone exceeds the target value for that pollutant, the Scottish Ministers must implement the national air pollution control programme drawn up in accordance with regulation 9 of the National Emission Ceilings Regulations 2018 in order to attain the target value, unless it cannot be achieved other than through measures that would entail disproportionate costs.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2010/204/regulation/18 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/air-quality-standards-scotland-regulations-2010/regulation-18
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