# The Air Quality Standards (Scotland) Regulations 2010, Regulation 23: Duty to limit exposure to PM2.5


(1) The Scottish Ministers must ensure that all necessary measures not entailing disproportionate costs are taken in relation to Scotland with a view to attaining the national exposure reduction target by 2020.
(2) The Scottish Ministers must base assessment of compliance with paragraph (1) on a comparison of the average exposure indicator for 2020 with that for 2010.
(3) The Scottish Ministers must ensure that all appropriate measures are taken in relation to Scotland with a view to ensuring that the average exposure indicator for 2015 does not exceed 20µg/m3.
(4) In this regulation—
(a) “national exposure reduction target” means the target established by the Secretary of State in accordance with regulation 24 of the Air Quality Standards Regulations 2010 ; and
(b) references to an average exposure indicator for a certain year are references to the indicator for that year calculated by the Secretary of State in accordance with regulation 23 of those Regulations.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2010/204/regulation/23 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/air-quality-standards-scotland-regulations-2010/regulation-23
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