Air quality
These regulate pollutants released into the air.
They include provisions on smoke control areas, asbestos pollution and the Aviation Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Scheme. They also include EU and domestic provisions setting annual limits for emissions of certain pollutants, and setting standards for concentrations of pollutants in outdoor air.
You can find all 14 regulations that relate to air quality below to the left.
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Clean Air Enactments (Repeals and Modifications) Regulations 1974 Made in consequence of the establishment of the Health and Safety Executive and the coming into operation on the 1st January 1975 of provisions of the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974
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Control of Asbestos in the Air Regulations 1990 Prevention of environmental pollution by asbestos
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National Emission Ceilings Regulations 2002 Transposes EU directive 2001/81/EC aiming to limit transboundary air pollution effects in the EU by setting national emission ceilings to be met by 2010.
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Air Quality (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2002 These regulations amend the Air Quality (England) Regulations 2000 and set the air quality objectives for England.
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The Air Quality Standards Regulations 2010 Transposes EU ambient air quality directives 2008/50/EC and 2004/107/EC relating to limits and targets for various pollutants in outdoor air for the protection of human health and the environment.
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The Smoke Control Areas (Authorised Fuels) (England) Regulations 2001 The Order allows certain fuels that do not emit significant smoke to be marketed for use in Smoke Control Areas.
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The Smoke Control Areas (Authorised Fuels) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2002 The Order allows certain fuels that do not emit significant smoke to be marketed for use in Smoke Control Areas.
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The Smoke Control Areas (Authorised Fuels) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2005 The Order allows certain fuels that do not emit significant smoke to be marketed for use in Smoke Control Areas.
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The Smoke Control Areas (Authorised Fuels) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2006 The Order allows certain fuels that do not emit significant smoke to be marketed for use in Smoke Control Areas.
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The Smoke Control Areas (Authorised Fuels) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2007 The Order allows certain fuels that do not emit significant smoke to be marketed for use in Smoke Control Areas.
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The Smoke Control Areas (Exempted Fireplaces) (England) Order 2011 The Order allows certain approved appliances that do not emit significant smoke to be marketed for use in Smoke Control Areas.
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Aviation Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Scheme (Amendment) Regulations 2011 Amends the 2010 aviation regulations to enable the UK to regulate aviation operators not on the central Commission list.
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Aviation Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Scheme Regulations 2009 Part-transposes an EU Directive to introduce aviation into the EU Emissions Trading Scheme from 2012, in particular the reporting requirements needed for the start of 2010 for operators to receive free allocation of allowances.
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Aviation Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Scheme Regulations 2010 Completes transpostion of the revision to the EU Emissions Trading Scheme Directive to introduce aviation into the scheme from 2012
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Tell us what you think should happen to these regulations and why, being specific where possible:
- Should we scrap them altogether?
- Could their purpose be achieved in a non-regulatory way (eg through a voluntary code?) How?
- Could they be reformed, simplified or merged? How?
- Can we reduce their bureaucracy through better implementation? How?
- Can we make their enforcement less burdensome? How?
- Should they be left as they are?
For example, you might consider whether the Air Quality (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2002 could be combined with the Air Quality Standards Regulations 2010 to minimise the burden on compliant businesses and local authorities by streamlining and simplifying the current local air quality management system, and to improve alignment with EU requirements.
Streamline by all means but up to the highest standards. With respect to vehicular air pollution UK attempts to improve air quality have been limp and ineffective. Thousands of people live or work in areas where the air pollution is above the save levels (i.e. it damages health). Children live in a smog of particulates, some of which are not included in the regulations but are carcinogenic. When it comes to carbon fuels the focus is always on levels of carbon emissions, and air pollution is ignored. If it was mandatory for buses, taxis and delivery vehicles to run on lpg or other clean fuels, the air pollution levels would drop a lot. As would the noise levels (integrated policy making, aka ‘joined-up thinking’). The polluter should pay, and yes, that cost would trickle down to all of us. As we use buses, taxis, etc and buy the products that the delivery vans are delivering to the shops, we are the polluters. And yes @shawn, there are areas of cities where air pollution levels are so high that people should have air tanks and masks. The ordinary masks you can see cyclists wearing sometimes won’t keep out the fine particulates though. Somewhere in Greater London the local council designated a whole row of houses along a main road as unfit for habitation because of the air pollution levels. Others should follow this excellent example, but won’t due to the shortage of housing.Comment Tags: air pollution, carbon, diesel, lpg, noise, particulates