IMPLEMENTATION OF EU AQ LEGISLATION IN THE CZECH REPUBLIC J. FIALA Czech Hydrometeorological Institute Prague, Czech Republic

Democratic changes in the CR have enforced also the improvement of environment =>Adoption of environmentally friendly legislation Privatization, restructuring of economy (decline from heavy industry), liberalisation of prices of energy  Implementation of necessary abatement measures (desulphurization of large power plants, gasification etc.)  Air emissions and consequently ambient air concentrations of basic pollutants (SO 2, PM and NO x ) have decreased remarkably in the Czech Republic after 1990 Air Pollution in CR in the Last Decade SO 2 TSP

EU Enlargement and Environment EU Enlargement is an important stimulus also for further improvement of the environment in CEEC The accession process requires the adoption of the European environmental legislation => Transposition and implementation of EU legislation into the national legislation to be in a compliance with the EU environmental laws

Approximation of AQ Legislation Accession countries have been facing to transpose and implement more than a dozen of EU AQ related directives and regulations: –Integrated Pollution Prevention Control –National Emission Ceiling and –Air Emission related directives In ambient air quality transposition and implementation of: Framework Directive 96/62/EC Daughter Directives 1999/30/EC, 2000/69/EC and 2002/3/EC Exchange of Information (EoI) Decision 97/101/EC Approximation of EU legislation led in the CEE candidate countries to the adoption of new clean air acts

New Clean Air Act in CR On 1 June 2002 new Clean Air Act (CAA) No. 86/2002 Coll. came into force About five Regulations and for Decrees transpose the directives of NEC, AE and AQ (and IPPC) The new legislation fully reflects the requirements of the EU air protection directives Regulation No. 350/2002 Coll. setting new air pollution limit values came into force on 14 August 2002 This Regulation brings also the stricter limit value for cadmium in comparison with the limit value set by the preceding Decree of 1991 and introduces also the limit values for arsenic, nickel, mercury and benzo(a)pyrene

Harmonization of air quality monitoring Daughter Directives (99/30/EC, 2000/69/EC, 2002/3/EC) specify the detailed minimum requirements concerning –the site selection for monitoring stations, –basic requirements as concerns criteria on localities both at micro- and macro-scale, traffic sites –data quality objectives, –general requirements for AQ assessment procedures During the year 2003 the national air quality monitoring network reflecting requirements of CAA is being innovated (monitoring of PM 2.5, extension of monitoring of benzene etc.)

Areas with Deteriorated Air Quality (Non-attainment Areas) The new AQ Directives require that the member states divide their territories into zones and agglomerations as basic units for air quality management The Clean Air Act introduces the term areas with deteriorated air quality ~ non-attainment areas These are the areas with the exceedance of the values of one or more air pollution limit values The identification of the non-attainment areas is a necessary prerequisite for the preparation of action plans and plans for air quality improvement in these areas

Agglomerations in CR Special AQ protection is required in agglomerations (inhabited areas with the population of at least ) Air quality assessment in these areas will be determined mainly on the basis of regular and quality measurements

Mapping of territorial distribution of air pollution levels Delimitation of non-attainment areas by mapping Objective interpolation of point measurement Representativeness of monitoring sites Mapping involves assimilation procedures of model results with measured values (spatially disaggregated emission inventories)

PM specific emissions Mapping of Emission Fluxes of Primary PM, HM and PAHS Cd specific emissions As emissions from 5x5 km grid PAHs emissions from 5x5 km grid

AQ Assessment-Health Protection, SO 2 Time Courses of SO 2 Air Pollution Characteristics

Time Courses of PM 10 AP Characteristics Of the total number of 121 stations at which PM10 measurements are carried out, 57 stations reported exceedences of 24-hour PM10 limit value, while 29 stations of them reported also exceedences of the limit value including the margins of tolerance AQ Assessment-Health Protection, PM 10

AQ with Respect to Limit Values for Health - PM th highest 24-hour PM 10 concentrations, 2002

AQ with Respect to Limit Values for Health - PM 10, 2. stage Annual average PM 10 concentrations, stage LV

AQ with Respect to Limit Values for Health - NO x Annual average and 19 th highest 1-hour concentrations of NO x as selected stations in

76th highest maximum of daily 8-hour moving average concentration of ozone, 2000–2002 AQ with Respect to Limit Values for Health - Ozone

Annual mean concentrations of Cadmium, 2002 AQ with Respect to Limit Values for Health - Cadmium

AQ with Respect to Limit Values for Health - BaP Annual mean concentrations of BaP, 2002

Non-attainment Areas (Areas with Deteriorated Air Quality) Health Protection

Summary AQ Characterisation => % of population within zones (areas) where limit values (and LV + MT) for protection of health are exceeded (AQ Indicator) % of population in areas classified according to EU DD, protection of public health

Non-attainment Areas ( Areas with Deteriorated Air Quality, (1DD + 3DD)) Protection of Vegetation an Ecosystems

Conclusions of AQ Assessment  More than 64% of population is exposed to ozone concentrations exceeding the target limit values.  Air pollution caused by suspended particles (PM 10 fraction) exceeds the limit values including the margins of tolerance.  The areas in which PM 10 concentrations exceed the limit values are inhabited by more than 23 % inhabitants. In 1998 this share amounted even to more than 34 %.  PM 10 limit values for 2010 are exceeded on more than 75 % of the territory.  Benzo(a)pyrene limit value is exceeded on more than 3 % of the CR with more than 20 % of population. The problem of exceeding concentrations of suspended particles should be solved both at local and regional levels, especially by measures aimed at the reduction of emissions caused by transport. High share of secondary particles shows that the necessary reduction of PM 10 concentrations will be feasible only by further reduction of emissions of the precursors (NO x, SO 2, VOC) of secondary particles of atmospheric aerosol. Further emission reduction of NO x and VOC emissions at large scale is the only way how to reduce the environmental loads caused by exceeding ground-level ozone concentrations.

Programs and Plans for AQ Management National Emission Reduction Program is being prepared to achieve NECs for SO 2, NO X, VOCs and NH 3 by Under these national plans, regional emission reduction programs are being prepared for each of 14 Czech regions. These programs cover all pollutants for which either ECs or ambient AQ limit values are laid down. In accordance with the FWD, additional regional air quality management programs are being prepared for pollutants with exceeded limit values. Integrated permitting according to the IPPC directive is a major tool of air quality management. All the programs to be completed before the date of accession of the Czech Republic to the EU, i.e. before May 1, 2004.