Division 4.1 Cost of traffic-based air pollutionF1

United Kingdom

When a Member State chooses to include all or part of the cost of traffic-based air pollution in the external-cost charge, the Member State or, if appropriate, an independent authority shall calculate the chargeable cost of traffic–based air pollution by applying the following formula or by taking the unit values in Table 1 of Annex IIIb if the latter are lower:

${PCV}_{ij} = \sum_{k} {EF}_{ik} \times {PC}_{jk}$

where:

— PCV _ij

air pollution cost of vehicle class i on road type j (euro/vehicle.kilometre)

— EF _ik

emission factor of pollutant k and vehicle class i (gram/vehicle.kilometre)

— PC _jk

monetary cost of pollutant k for type of road j (euro/gram)

The emission factors shall be the same as those used by the Member State to draft the national emissions inventories provided for in Directive 2001/81/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 October 2001 on national emission ceilings for certain atmospheric pollutants ^f1 (which requires use of the EMEP/CORINAIR Emission Inventory Guidebook ^f2 ). The monetary cost of pollutants shall be estimated by the Member State or, if appropriate, an independent authority, respecting the state of the article

The Member State or, if appropriate, an independent authority may apply scientifically proven alternative methods to calculate the value of air pollution costs using data from air pollutant measurement and the local value of the monetary cost of air pollutants, provided that the results do not exceed the unit values referred to in Table 1 of Annex IIIb for any class of vehicles.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1: Inserted by Directive 2011/76/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 September 2011 amending Directive 1999/62/EC on the charging of heavy goods vehicles for the use of certain infrastructures (Text with EEA relevance).

Footnotes

f1: OJ L 309, 27.11.2001, p. 22 .
f2: Methodology of the European Environmental Agency: http://reports.eea.europa.eu/EMEPCORINAIR5/