EEA geospatial data catalogue
Zones in relation to EU air quality thresholds in 2010 - version 1, August 2012
Member States provide an annual assessment of air quality in comparison to EU air quality thresholds.
Commission Decision 2004/461/EC provides a questionnaire to be used by the Member States for the annual reporting under the Framework Directive and the related four Daughter Directives 1999/30/EC, 2000/69/EC, 2002/3/EC and 2004/107/EC. Member States have to divide their entire territory into zones. Zones can be regarded as the primary territorial units for assessment and management of air quality under the air quality directives. Consequently, unambiguous definition of all zones is needed. Member States have employed different approaches for the definition of their zones. Some Member States have divided their territory into a single set of zones serving all pollutants. Other Member States have defined a single base set of zones and modified some of the zones for the application to particular pollutants. Where a Member State has distinguished different sets of zones in relation to health protection and ecosystem/vegetation protection respectively, a single location can be situated in several zones, e.g. in a zone defined for all pollutants except lead and in another, larger zone defined for lead.
More information about EU air quality standards is available on the DG Environment web site at http://ec.europa.eu/environment/air/quality/standards.htm.
Pursuant to Article 22 of Directive 2008/50/EC, Member States may notify to the Commission when in their opinion the conditions are met in a given zone or agglomeration for postponing the attainment deadline for the limit values for nitrogen dioxide and benzene, or for being exempt from the limit values for PM10. More information is available at: http://ec.europa.eu/environment/air/quality/legislation/time_extensions.htm .
Additional information is available in The annual technical overview and analysis of the reports submitted by Member States (http://acm.eionet.europa.eu/databases/aq-questionnaire/annual_reports_aqq.html).
Zones are designated for the following pollutants:
B – Benzene;
BaP – Benzo(a)pyrene;
C – Carbon Monoxide;
L – lead;
AsCdNi – Heavy metals: Arsenic, Cadmium, Nickel;
NH – Nitrogen Dioxide for human protection;
NV – NOx for vegetation protection;
O – ozone;
PM10 – particulate matter less than 10 microgrammes;
PM25 – particulate matter less than 2.5 microgrammes;
SE – SO2 for ecosystems protection;
SH – SO2 for human protection.
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- Date ( Publication )
- 2012-08-28
- Date ( Creation )
- 2012-08-28
- Edition
- 1
- Identifier
- eea_v_4326_1_mio_zones-aq-thresholds_2010
- Status
- Superseded
- GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 ( Theme )
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- Area management/restriction/regulation zones and reporting units
- EEA keyword list
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- ecosystem
- health
- air quality
- vector data
- EEA categories ( Theme )
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- geospatial data
- GEMET - Concepts, version 3.0
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- air quality management
- Use limitation
- Unless otherwise indicated, re-use of content on the EEA website for commercial or non-commercial purposes is permitted free of charge, provided that the source is acknowledged. The EEA re-use policy follows Directive 2003/98/EC of the European Parliament and the Council on the re-use of public sector information throughout the European Union and Commission Decision 2006/291/EC, Euratom on the re-use of Commission information. The EEA accepts no responsibility or liability whatsoever for the re-use of content accessible on its website. Any inquiries about re-use of content on the EEA website should be addressed to Ove Caspersen, EEA, Kongens Nytorv 6, DK-1050 Copenhagen K, Tel +45 33 36 71 00, Fax +45 33 36 71 99, e-mail copyrights at eea.europa.eu
- Access constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- No limitations to public access
- Spatial representation type
- Vector
- Denominator
- 1000000
- Metadata language
- en
- Character set
- UTF8
- Topic category
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- Boundaries
- Health
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- Begin date
- 2010-01-01
- End date
- 2010-12-31
- CRS identifier
- EPSG:4326
- Distribution format
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- OnLine resource
- http://www.eea.europa.eu/data-and-maps/data/ds_resolveuid/d292854692064b7e8da32e829be4b896 ( WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link )
- OnLine resource
- Direct download (Eionet authentication) ( WWW:URL )
- OnLine resource
- https://sdi.eea.europa.eu/webdav/continental/europe/air/eea_v_4326_1_mio_zones-aq-thresholds_2010/EU10_finalversion.gdb ( EEA:FOLDERPATH )
- OnLine resource
- https://sdi.eea.europa.eu/webdav/continental/europe/air/eea_v_4326_1_mio_zones-aq-thresholds_2010/EU10_Finalversion.sqlite ( EEA:FILEPATH )
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- Dataset
Conformance result
- Date ( Publication )
- 2010-12-08
- Explanation
- See the referenced specification
- Statement
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Member States have to divide their entire territory into zones. Zones can be regarded as the primary territorial units for assessment and management of air quality under the air quality directives. Consequently, unambiguous definition of all zones is needed. Member States have employed different approaches for the definition of their zones. Some Member States have divided their territory into a single set of zones serving all pollutants. Other Member States have defined a single base set of zones and modified some of the zones for the application to particular pollutants. Where a Member State has distinguished different sets of zones in relation to health protection and ecosystem/vegetation protection respectively, a single location can be situated in several zones, e.g. in a zone defined for all pollutants except lead and in another, larger zone defined for lead.
Data is reported under Annual report (questionnaire) on air quality assessment and management (2004/461/EC) [http://rod.eionet.europa.eu/obligations/389]
National deliveries can be found at http://cdr.eionet.europa.eu/recent_etc?RA_ID=389 ETC-ACM assembles the European dataset from them. Feedback to countries following QA can be seen at the same location.
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- File identifier
- 548f9a25-2488-4d86-949e-0a286515eba8 XML
- Metadata language
- en
- Character set
- UTF8
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Date stamp
- 2020-07-10T17:12:09
- Metadata standard name
- ISO 19115/19139
- Metadata standard version
- 1.0
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