Air
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This part of the website offers information about regulations for emissions to air in the Netherlands. The aim of the Dutch and European policy is to improve air quality. Air pollution travels over long distances and across national boundaries. In order to limit air pollution responsible for acidification, eutrophication and ground-level ozone pollution the policy of the European Community is to control individual sources and to limit national totals of atmospheric emissions of several pollutants.
The European NEC-guideline Directive 2001/81/EC and the Gothenburg protocol set upper limits for each country for the total emissions of sulphur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, volatile organic compounds and ammonia in 2010. Also, the Directive 2008/50/EC establishes ambitious, cost-effective targets for improving human health and environmental quality up to 2020. In the Netherlands this directive is implemented in the national law on environmental management (Wet Milieubeheer in Dutch).
Emissions of industrial sources are regulated in other directives such as the IPPC Directive (Directive 2008/1/EC), the Large Combustion Plants Directive (LCP Directive), the VOC Solvents Emissions Directive and the VOC Paints Directive (Directive 2004/42/EC). Al these directives are implemented in Dutch legislation and regulations. The Netherland Emisson Guideline for Air (NeR in Dutch) gives emission limits for most substances that are emitted to air by industrial sources.
- L40 Manual Measurement of air emissions
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L40 provides concrete tools for setting quality requirements on the measurements upon issue of permits. The manual is accompanied by factsheets to be used during inspections.
- Particulate Matter (PM)
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Dust or particulate matter, expressed as PM10 / 2.5, is becoming the most important air pollutant in Western Europe. In many areas, especially in and around major European cities, air quality does not meet the European standards. Local governments have to meet increasing demands for a better environment, when at the same time traffic, industry and agriculture are extending and intensified.
- Guideline Dutch decree on emission limits for combustion plants
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The Guideline Bees A provides an explanation of the use of the Dutch decree on emission limits for combustion plants (Bees A), which is the Dutch implementation of the European directive for Large Combustion Plants (2001/80/EC). Falling under Bees A are combustion installations in large logistic units, such as power stations and large chemical companies.
- Netherlands Emission Guidelines for Air
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The NeR, the Netherlands Emission Guidelines for Air, is a national guideline, aimed at harmonising the environmental permits in the Netherlands with respect to abatement of emissions to the air. For this purpose the NeR gives emission standards that agree with the Best Available Techniques. This English edition of the NeR serves to inform foreign companies with a Dutch establishment on the Dutch emission standards for environmental licensing as well as foreign governments and others that have an interest in the Dutch approach of air emissions abatement.
- Air quality
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In the Netherlands, air quality models have been used extensively by all levels of governmental bodies for many years now. Ever since the nineties, local concentrations of in particular nitrogen dioxide and particulate matter around traffic ways and stationary plants are calculated by the CAR-model and NNM-model. The 21st century showed a development towards more diversity in air quality models and in their users. The models are used more intensively as well. This is due to jurisprudence of cases in which legislation about particulate matter played an important role.
