Traduction de «precursor pollutant » (Anglais → Français) :

It would define air pollutants as the items listed on slide 11: particulate matter, ozone, volatile organic compounds, gaseous ammonia—these are all smog precursors—nitrous oxides and sulphur dioxides, which contribute to smog and acid rain, and mercury.

The Protocols sets maximum permitted levels of emissions (emissions ceilings) for each national Party for the four main precursor pollutants responsible for the above mentioned damages: sulphur dioxyde, oxides of nitrogen, volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and ammonia.

(4) Council Directive 92/72/EEC of 21 September 1992 on air pollution by ozone(7) requires the Commission to submit to the Council a report on the evaluation of photochemical pollution in the Community, accompanied by any proposals the Commission deems appropriate on the control of air pollution by ground-level ozone and, if necessary, on reducing emissions of ozone precursors.

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.

(13) In accordance with the principle of subsidiarity as set out in Article 5 of the Treaty and taking account, in particular, of the precautionary principle, the objective of this Directive, namely limitation of emissions of acidifying and eutrophying pollutants and ozone precursors, cannot be sufficiently achieved by the Member States because of the transboundary nature of the pollution and can therefore be better achieved by the Community; in accordance with the principle of proportionality this Directive does not go beyond what is necessary to achieve that purpose.

I believe that it is important for Member States to be aware of this situation and to keep the issue of ozone pollution in mind when considering future initiatives aimed at reducing the emissions of ozone precursors such as Volatile Organic Compounds and oxides of nitrogen" The directive 92/72/EEC on air pollution by ozone was adopted by the Council on the 21st of September 1992, and implemented by the Member States in March 1994.