Activites

• 2002/03/09 Final act published in Official Journal
  • Directive 2002/3
  • OJ L 067 09.03.2002, p. 0014-0030
• 2002/02/12 Final act signed
• 2002/02/12 End of procedure in Parliament
• 2002/01/17 Decision by Parliament, 3rd reading
  • T5-0006/2002 summary

    The European Parliament adopted the resolution by Mr Chris DAVIES (ELDR, UK). (Please refer to the outcome of the conciliation committee 22/11/01). �

• #2402
• 2001/12/19 Council Meeting
• 2001/11/22 Formal meeting of Conciliation Committee
  • 3658/2001
• 2001/10/23 Report tabled for plenary, 3rd reading
  • A5-0454/2001
• #2373
• 2001/10/08 Council Meeting
• 2001/06/13 Decision by Parliament, 2nd reading
  • T5-0321/2001 summary

    The European Parliament adopted, with several amendments, the report drafted by Mr Chris DAVIS (ELDR, UK) on improving air quality across the EU by getting the Member States to reduce ground-level exposure to ozone. (Please refer to the previous text). In the debate Environment Commissioner Margot WALLSTRÖM said that she supported the principle behind the amendments strengthening the legislation on target values, long-term objectives, short-term action plans and disseminating information, but only provided this was feasible and economically efficient and save where physically possible. She was opposed however to the amendment reducing the maximum number of days' exposure to ozone to 20 days and could not accept the amendments on involving the candidate countries on the grounds that this was outside the scope of the legislation.�

• 2001/06/12 Debate in Parliament
  • Debate in Parliament
• 2001/05/28 Vote in committee, 2nd reading
  • A5-0187/2001
• 2001/03/14 Committee referral announced in Parliament, 2nd reading
• #2334
• 2001/03/08 Council Meeting
  • 13114/1/2000 summary

    The Council integrated into its common position 10 amendments of the European Parliament relating to the following: cooperation with accession countries; cooperation between Member States; enviromental and health protection; informing the public of the investigations and the results of action plans; checking meteorological conditions; recent scientific research on human health; accession candidates and trans-border pollution and climate change. The Council partly accepted 4 amendments relating to defining the pollution level; gearing the action plans to the specificities of each case and each place; reporting to the Commission and publishing information. The Council rejected 3 of the European Parliament's amendments relating to the following: involving candidate countries in the development of the Community strategy to abate ozone pollution; fixing the year 2020 as the year by which long-term objectives must be attained and finally, the obligation to supply to the population certain information when the exceedance of the information or alert threshold is predicted.�

• #2295
• 2000/10/10 Council Meeting
• 2000/10/02 Modified legislative proposal published
  • COM(2000)0613 summary

    The amended proposal for a Directive relating to ozone in ambient air both accepts and rejects a number of amendments tabled by the European Parliament. The amendments accepted by the Commission relate to the following: - coordination between Member States and involvement of accession candidate countries; - information and reporting obligations; - environmental and human health protection. The amendments rejected by the Commission are in relation to the following: - the involvement of accession candidate countries in developing a strategy to abate ozone pollution; - the setting of 2020 as a fixed target year to achieve the long-term objectives; - the term "as far as possible" from the table in Annex I (II); - the term "where practicable" from the requirement of Article 6(2) to inform the public on predicted exceedances of the information or alert threshold; - the requirement that short-term action plans be drawn up on a local scale.�

  • DG [{'url': 'http://ec.europa.eu/dgs/environment/', 'title': 'Environment'}],
• #X012
• 2000/03/30 Council Meeting
  • X012
• 2000/03/15 Decision by Parliament, 1st reading/single reading
  • T5-0101/2000 summary

    The European Parliament adopted the report by Mr. Chris DAVIES (ELDR, UK) relating to ozone in ambient air. This report was subject to amendments which concern: - the early involvement of accession countries which is regarded as being essential; - the increased cooperation between the Member States in reducing ozone levels, use of the potential of transboundary measures and agreement on such measures; - the date for the long-term objectives for ozone concentrations in ambient air: these have to be achieved by 2020, subject to modification, if necessary during the reviews. In addition, the Member States should routinely make information available to the public as well as to appropriate organisations such as environmental organisations and consumer organisations. They shall also inform the Commission, the public, appropriate organisations such as environmental organisations, consumer organisations representing the interests of sensitive population groups and the health care bodies about both the results of their investigations and the content and implementation of specific short-term action plans. Furthermore, they must provide the Commission annually with details of the content and implementation of such short-term action plans. In conclusion, information submitted by the Member States shall be published in a form that enables direct comparison of the performances of the Member States. Progress made by accession candidate countries as regards preparations for the implementation of Community air quality legislation shall be taken into account.�

• 2000/03/14 Debate in Parliament
  • Debate in Parliament
• 2000/02/24 Vote in committee, 1st reading/single reading
  • A5-0062/2000
• #2235
• 1999/12/13 Council Meeting
  • 2235
• #2207
• 1999/10/12 Council Meeting
  • 2207
• 1999/07/23 Committee referral announced in Parliament, 1st reading/single reading
• 1999/06/09 Legislative proposal published
  • COM(1999)0125 summary

    PURPOSE: This proposal seeks to amend existing Community legislation regarding ozone in line with the requirements of Council Directive 96/62/EC on ambient air quality assessment and management (Air Quality Framework Directive). CONTENT: The Air Quality Framework Directive requires daughter legislation to include the following provisions: - limit values and /or target values, including dates for their attainment; - alert thresholds if appropriate and minimum details to be supplied in the event of exceedances; - criteria and techniques for measurement and other methods for assessing ambient air quality. Recognising that compliance with the long-term objective cannot be achieved in one step, the Commission has adopted a staged approach in this proposal. 1) The proposal explicitly includes the WHO Guidelines for ozone as long term objectives. The ultimate aim os to avoid exceedances of these long term objectives, but no date is set by which this should be achieved. 2) As an interim first stage, the proposal sets target values for 2010. These are based on WHO Guidelines with a view to reducing harmful effects on human health and the environment as quickly as possible over the medium term, but also taking into account of feasibility and cost. The fact that the Commission used the results of the scenario analysis performed by its consultant to derive the proposed target values provides consistency between the latter and the interim objectives underpinning the NEC proposal (and thus the expected effect of the emission ceiling proposed in the ozone strategy). 3) The Commission will review the implementation of this Directive in due course and consider whether further progress could be made towards meeting the long-term objectives.�

  • DG [{'url': 'http://ec.europa.eu/dgs/environment/', 'title': 'Environment'}],

Documents

• Legislative proposal published: COM(1999)0125
• Debate in Council: 2207
• Debate in Council: 2235
• Committee report tabled for plenary, 1st reading/single reading: A5-0062/2000
• Debate in Parliament: Debate in Parliament
• Decision by Parliament, 1st reading/single reading: T5-0101/2000
• Debate in Council: X012
• Modified legislative proposal published: COM(2000)0613
• Council position published: 13114/1/2000
• Committee recommendation tabled for plenary, 2nd reading: A5-0187/2001
• Debate in Parliament: Debate in Parliament
• Decision by Parliament, 2nd reading: T5-0321/2001
• Report tabled for plenary, 3rd reading: A5-0454/2001
• Joint text approved by Conciliation Committee co-chairs: 3658/2001
• Decision by Parliament, 3rd reading: T5-0006/2002
• : Directive 2002/3
• : OJ L 067 09.03.2002, p. 0014-0030

History

(these mark the time of scraping, not the official date of the change)