Environmental Protection Agency Act, 1992 (Ambient Air Quality Assessment and Management) Regulations, 1999 (S.I. No. 33 of 1999).

These Regulations transpose articles 2, 3, 5 and 11(1)(d) of Directive 96/62/EC on ambient air quality assessment and management into Irish law. The Regulations make the Environmental Protection Agency the competent authority and body for the purposes of implementing the Directive, provide for the preliminary assessment of ambient air quality and notification to the Commission of the European Communities of the methods used for this purpose.