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PM2.5 (10 μg/m3 annual mean 25 μg/m3 24-hour mean)
The WHO Air quality guidelines are a set of evidence-based recommendations of limit values for specific air pollutants developed to help countries achieve air quality that protects public health. The first release of the guidelines was in 1987. Since then, several updated versions have appeared. This toolkit currently assesses countries against the 2005 guideline values (see here). The guidelines were updated more recently in 2021 (see here) and the legislation and policies presented in this toolkit will in the future be reassessed against these updated values.
PM10 (20 μg/m3 annual mean)
The WHO Air quality guidelines are a set of evidence-based recommendations of limit values for specific air pollutants developed to help countries achieve air quality that protects public health. The first release of the guidelines was in 1987. Since then, several updated versions have appeared. This toolkit currently assesses countries against the 2005 guideline values (see here). The guidelines were updated more recently in 2021 (see here) and the legislation and policies presented in this toolkit will in the future be reassessed against these updated values.
- Compliant with WHO guideline
- Weaker than WHO guideline
PM10 (50 μg/m3 24-hour mean)
The WHO Air quality guidelines are a set of evidence-based recommendations of limit values for specific air pollutants developed to help countries achieve air quality that protects public health. The first release of the guidelines was in 1987. Since then, several updated versions have appeared. This toolkit currently assesses countries against the 2005 guideline values (see here). The guidelines were updated more recently in 2021 (see here) and the legislation and policies presented in this toolkit will in the future be reassessed against these updated values.
- Compliant with WHO guideline
- Weaker than WHO guideline
Ozone (100 μg/m3 8-hour mean)
The WHO Air quality guidelines are a set of evidence-based recommendations of limit values for specific air pollutants developed to help countries achieve air quality that protects public health. The first release of the guidelines was in 1987. Since then, several updated versions have appeared. This toolkit currently assesses countries against the 2005 guideline values (see here). The guidelines were updated more recently in 2021 (see here) and the legislation and policies presented in this toolkit will in the future be reassessed against these updated values.
- Compliant with WHO guideline
- Weaker than WHO guideline
NO2 (40 μg/m3 annual mean)
The WHO Air quality guidelines are a set of evidence-based recommendations of limit values for specific air pollutants developed to help countries achieve air quality that protects public health. The first release of the guidelines was in 1987. Since then, several updated versions have appeared. This toolkit currently assesses countries against the 2005 guideline values (see here). The guidelines were updated more recently in 2021 (see here) and the legislation and policies presented in this toolkit will in the future be reassessed against these updated values.
- Compliant with WHO guideline
- Weaker than WHO guideline
NO2 (200 μg/m3 1-hour mean)
The WHO Air quality guidelines are a set of evidence-based recommendations of limit values for specific air pollutants developed to help countries achieve air quality that protects public health. The first release of the guidelines was in 1987. Since then, several updated versions have appeared. This toolkit currently assesses countries against the 2005 guideline values (see here). The guidelines were updated more recently in 2021 (see here) and the legislation and policies presented in this toolkit will in the future be reassessed against these updated values.
- Compliant with WHO guideline
- Weaker than WHO guideline
SO2 (20 μg/m3 24-hour mean)
The WHO Air quality guidelines are a set of evidence-based recommendations of limit values for specific air pollutants developed to help countries achieve air quality that protects public health. The first release of the guidelines was in 1987. Since then, several updated versions have appeared. This toolkit currently assesses countries against the 2005 guideline values (see here). The guidelines were updated more recently in 2021 (see here) and the legislation and policies presented in this toolkit will in the future be reassessed against these updated values.
- Compliant with WHO guideline
- Weaker than WHO guideline
SO2 (500 μg/m3 10-minute mean)
The WHO Air quality guidelines are a set of evidence-based recommendations of limit values for specific air pollutants developed to help countries achieve air quality that protects public health. The first release of the guidelines was in 1987. Since then, several updated versions have appeared. This toolkit currently assesses countries against the 2005 guideline values (see here). The guidelines were updated more recently in 2021 (see here) and the legislation and policies presented in this toolkit will in the future be reassessed against these updated values.
- Compliant with WHO guideline
- Weaker than WHO guideline
Newly acknowledged pollutants
The WHO Air quality guidelines are a set of evidence-based recommendations of limit values for specific air pollutants developed to help countries achieve air quality that protects public health. The first release of the guidelines was in 1987. Since then, several updated versions have appeared. This toolkit currently assesses countries against the 2005 guideline values (see here). The guidelines were updated more recently in 2021 (see here) and the legislation and policies presented in this toolkit will in the future be reassessed against these updated values.
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Legislation

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Bangladesh

Bangladesh Environment Conservation (Amendment) Act No. 50 of 2010.

This Act aims to provide for further amendments to the Bangladesh Environment Conservation Act No. 1 of 1995. Amendments regulate and give new definition to several aspect of the original Act, such as: wetland; hazardous waste; ecologically critical area; restriction on cutting hill; restriction on production, import, storage, loading, transportation etc of hazardous waste to protect the...

Legislation

| 2010 |

Bolivia (Plurinational State of)

Ley Municipal Nº 1, 17 de junio de 2010, Gobierno Municipal de La Paz

Legislation

| 2010 |

Sweden

Air Quality Ordinance (2010:477)

Keywords

Air quality, Concentrations, Legislation, Ozone, Air quality standards, PM2.5, Air quality monitoring, Particulate matter, PM10, Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, Nitrogen dioxide, Sulphur dioxide, Ambient air, Nitrogen oxides, Benzo(a)pyrene, Monitoring stations, Allowed exceedances, Benzene, Carbon monoxide, Concentration-based standards, Agglomerations, Inspection, Zones, Zoning, Air pollution, Alert thresholds, Compliance, Nitrogen monoxide, Transboundary air pollution

Regulation

| 2010 |

Chile

Decreto 22 - Establece Norma de Calidad Secundaria de Aire para Anhídrido Sulfuroso (SO2).

El documento establece una norma secundaria de calidad de aire para el dióxido de azufre (SO2) en Chile, con el objetivo de proteger los recursos naturales y la salud pública frente a los efectos adversos de este contaminante. En el contexto de la Ley sobre Bases Generales del Medio Ambiente, se busca actualizar y mejorar la normativa existente, introduciendo criterios de percentiles para la...

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Sulphur dioxide

Legislation | 2010 |

Cyprus

The Air Quality (Limit values for Sulphur Dioxide, Nitrogen Dioxide and Oxides, Particulates, Lead, Carbon Monoxide, Benzene and Ozone in Ambient Air) Regulations of 2010 (R.A.A. 327/2010)

The purpose of these Regulations is to set limits values on concentrations of in relation to sulphur dioxide, nitrogen dioxide and oxides of nitrogen, particulate matter, lead, benzene, carbon monoxide and ozone in ambient air in order to avoid, prevent and reduce harmful effects on human health and the environment. The Regulations provide for the establishment of limit values and the assessment...

Regulation

| 2010 |

Honduras

Acuerdo Nº 1566-2010 - Reglamento para el control de emisiones generadas por fuentes fijas.

El presente Reglamento tiene por objeto la prevención, el control y disminución de la contaminación del aire producida por fuentes fijas, tales como industrias, comercios o servicios que emitan gases o partículas a la atmósfera. El acuerdo establece los objetivos específicos, el ámbito de aplicación y los principios generales que rigen el reglamento. El acuerdo establece las competencias y...

Keywords

Carbon monoxide, Sulphur dioxide, PM10, PM2.5, Ammonia

Legislation | 2010 |

Cyprus

Air Quality Law, 2010 (Law No. 77(Ι) of 2010)

The Law aims at harmonizing the Cypriot legislative framework with Directive 2008/50/EC on ambient air quality and intends creating the suitable legislative framework for implementing this Directive through secondary legislation. The law provides for the assessment and management of ambient air quality and particularly aims at (a) defining and establishing objectives for ambient air quality...

Regulation

| 2009 |

Afghanistan

Regulation on Reduction and Prevention of Air Pollution.

This Regulation is enacted to establish the goals for reduction and prevention of air pollution, prevention of damages to the human beings and environment by the high risk air pollution and prevention of spread and distribution of changing elements of the physical and chemical structure of air. The Regulation identifies the air polluting elements including automobiles and motoring vehicles...

Keywords

Air pollution, Legislation, Industrial sources, Concentration-based standards

Regulation

| 2009 |

Andorra

Air Pollution Control Regulations.

The purpose of this text is, as per its Chapter one, to regulate the activities and situations that produce air pollution; to establish, regulate and control potentially polluting activities in the atmosphere; to define and set air quality objectives and methods for informing the public; to determine tools and mechanisms to monitor and correct air pollution situations. Air pollution is to be...

Keywords

Air pollution, Concentration-based standards, Zones, Zoning, Legislation, Air quality monitoring, Air quality, Inspection, Public health, Concentrations, Air quality standards, Particulate matter, PM10, Nitrogen monoxide, PM2.5

Legislation | 2009 |

India

National Ambient Air Quality Standards

India Air (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1981 National Ambient Air Quality Standards Published on 18 November 2009 Commenced [This is the version of this document from 18 November 2009.] No.B-29016/20/90/PCI-L—In exercise of the powers conferred by Sub-section (2) (h) of section 16 of the Air (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1981 (Act No. 14 of 1981), and in super session of...

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