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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Identification info
- Date (Publication)
- 2012-08-28
- Date (Creation)
- 2012-08-28
- Edition
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1
- Citation identifier
- eea_v_4326_1_mio_zones-aq-thresholds_p_2010_V01_r00
- Status
- Superseded
- Point of contact
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Organisation Individual Electronic mail address Website Role European Environment Agency
Point of contact European Environment Agency
Custodian
- Spatial representation type
- Vector
Spatial resolution
Equivalent scale
- Denominator
- 1000000
- Topic category
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- Boundaries
- Health
Extent
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Extent
Temporal extent
- Time period
- 2010-01-01 2010-12-31
- EEA topics
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Air pollution
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- GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
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Area management/restriction/regulation zones and reporting units
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- GEMET
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air quality management
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ecosystem
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air quality
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health
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Resource constraints
- Use constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
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License CC-BY 4.0 ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Copyright holder: European Environment Agency (EEA).
Resource constraints
- Access constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- no limitations to public access
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
Data quality info
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
Report
Result
- Title
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Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services
- Date (Publication)
- 2010-12-08
- Explanation
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See the referenced specification
Resource lineage
- 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 .
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
Reference System Information
Reference System Information
- Code
- EPSG:4326
Metadata
- Metadata identifier
- 548f9a25-2488-4d86-949e-0a286515eba8
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
- Contact
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Organisation Individual Electronic mail address Website Role European Environment Agency
Point of contact
Type of resource
- Resource type
- Dataset
- Metadata linkage
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https://sdi.eea.europa.eu/catalogue/srv/api/records/548f9a25-2488-4d86-949e-0a286515eba8
- Date info (Creation)
- 2012-08-28T09:38:46Z
- Date info (Revision)
- 2025-10-09T10:50:54.671996Z
Metadata standard
- Title
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ISO 19115/19139
- Edition
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1.0
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