Eleven countries exceed air pollutant emission limits

摘要

Air pollutants are still being emitted above legal limits in the EU, the European Environment Agency (EEA) announced this week. Recent data from the EU member states shows that 11 countries continued to breach their emission ceilings in 2012, the EEA said in releasing preliminary statistics on Monday. Under the National Emission Ceilings (NEC) Directive, EU member states have individual emission limits, known as 'ceilings', that were to be achieved by 2010 for four different pollutants: sulphur dioxide (SO_2), nitrogen oxides (NO_x), ammonia (NH_3) and non-methane volatile organic compounds (NMVOC).