Directive 2001/81/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 October 2001 on national emission ceilings for certain atmospheric pollutants

• Published date: 27 November 2001
• Official Gazette Publication: Gazzetta ufficiale delle Comunità europee, L 309, 27 novembre 2001,Journal officiel des Communautés européennes, L 309, 27 novembre 2001,Diario Oficial de las Comunidades Europeas, L 309, 27 de noviembre de 2001

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►B DIRECTIVE 2001/81/EC OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL of 23 October 2001 on national emission ceilings for certain atmospheric pollutants (OJ L 309 27.11.2001, p. 22)

Amended by:

		Official Journal
		No	page	date
M1	COUNCIL DIRECTIVE 2006/105/EC of 20 November 2006	L 363	368	20.12.2006
M2	REGULATION (EC) No 219/2009 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL of 11 March 2009	L 87	109	31.3.2009
►M3	COUNCIL DIRECTIVE 2013/17/EU of 13 May 2013	L 158	193	10.6.2013
►M4	DIRECTIVE (EU) 2016/2284 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL Text with EEA relevance of 14 December 2016	L 344	1	17.12.2016

Amended by:

A1 ACT concerning the conditions of accession of the Czech Republic, the Republic of Estonia, the Republic of Cyprus, the Republic of Latvia, the Republic of Lithuania, the Republic of Hungary, the Republic of Malta, the Republic of Poland, the Republic of Slovenia and the Slovak Republic and the adjustments to the Treaties on which the European Union is founded L 236 33 23.9.2003

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DIRECTIVE 2001/81/EC OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL

of 23 October 2001

on national emission ceilings for certain atmospheric pollutants

Article 1

Objective

The aim of this Directive is to limit emissions of acidifying and eutrophying pollutants and ozone precursors in order to improve the protection in the Community of the environment and human health against risks of adverse effects from acidification, soil eutrophication and ground-level ozone and to move towards the long-term objectives of not exceeding critical levels and loads and of effective protection of all people against recognised health risks from air pollution by establishing national emission ceilings, taking the years 2010 and 2020 as benchmarks, and by means of successive reviews as set out in Articles 4 and 10.

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Article 4

National emission ceilings

1. By the year 2010 at the latest, Member States shall limit their annual national emissions of the pollutants sulphur dioxide (SO2), nitrogen oxides (NOx), volatile organic compounds (VOC) and ammonia (NH3) to amounts not greater than the emission ceilings laid down in Annex I, taking into account any modifications made by Community measures adopted following the reports...