The Air Quality Standards (Wales) Regulations 2010 No. 1433 (W. 126)

PART 4 National exposure reduction for PM_2·5

Duty of the Welsh Ministers to limit exposure to PM_2·5

19.—(1) The Welsh Ministers must ensure that all necessary measures not entailing disproportionate costs are taken to reduce exposure to PM_2·5 with a view to attaining the national exposure reduction target by 2020.

(2) The Welsh Ministers must ensure that all appropriate measures are taken with a view to ensuring that the average exposure indicator for 2015 does not exceed 20 μg/m³.

(3) In this regulation—

• “average exposure indicator” (“dangosydd cysylltiad cyfartaleddog”) means the indicator for PM_2·5 calculated by the Secretary of State in accordance with regulation 23 of the Air Quality Standards Regulations 2010(1); and

• “national exposure reduction target” (“targed cenedlaethol ar gyfer lleihau cysylltiad”) means the target for PM_2·5 established by the Secretary of State in accordance with regulation 24 of those Regulations.

(1)

S.I. 2010/1001.