The Air Quality Standards Regulations 2007 No. 64

PART 2 Group A and Group B pollutants and ozone

CHAPTER 2 Attainment of air quality standards

General attainment measures

7.—(1) The Secretary of State shall take the necessary measures to ensure that the air quality standards in regulation 6 are attained.

(2) In the case of Group B pollutants, the necessary measures are—

(a) measures not entailing disproportionate costs; and

(b) in so far as concentrations of a relevant pollutant arise as a result of emissions from installations to which Council Directive 96/61/EC concerning integrated pollution prevention and control(1) applies, the application of best available techniques to prevent pollution from those installations in accordance with that Directive(2).

(3) In the case of ozone, the necessary measures are measures the Secretary of State considers to be proportionate and, in relation to the long-term objectives, cost effective.

(1)

OJ No L 257, 10.10.96, p.26.

(2)

The Directive is implemented by the Pollution Prevention and Control (England and Wales) Regulations 2000 (S.I. 2000/1973 as amended by S.I. 2001/503, S.I. 2002/275, S.I. 2002/1702, S.I. 2003/1699, S.I. 2003/3296, S.I. 2004/3276, S.I. 2005/1448 and S.I. 2006/2311).