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Understanding the National Emissions Ceilings Directive

Learn why certain rules are implemented in the Czech Republic to limit emissions of pollutants, comply with legal requirements, and protect the environment. The National Emissions Ceilings Directive (2001/81/EC) aims to reduce acidifying and eutrophying pollutants as well as ozone precursors by establishing national emission limits for specific pollutants. Find out the purpose and requirements of the NEC Directive and why it's essential for environmental protection.

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Understanding the National Emissions Ceilings Directive

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  1. THE NEC DIRECTIVE Gijs van Luyn InfoMil

  2. NEC-directive addresses national governments • The NEC-directive addresses national governments and does not contain rules for individual installations. • Why this presentation? To give an understanding why certain rules are implemented in the Czech Republic.

  3. What are national emissions ceilings? • Limits on the total amount of emissions of pollutants allowed from domestic industry • Limits that progressively reduce over a period of time • Shared limits that have to be allocated out amongst operators

  4. National Emissions Ceilings Directive (2001/81/EC) • Aims to limit acidifying and eutrophying pollutants and ozone precursors by establishing national emissions ceilings for: • Sulphur dioxide • Volatile organic compounds • Oxides of nitrogen • Ammonia

  5. Purpose of NEC Directive • By 2010: • Reduce ground level critical loads of acidification by 50% • Reduce the critical level of health related ground level ozone exposure by 66% • Reduce the critical level of vegetation related ground level ozone exposure by 33%

  6. Requirements of NEC Directive • Develop a programme for the reduction of national emissions of relevant pollutants • Submit annual emission inventories for the relevant pollutants

  7. Why do we need NEC? • Legal requirements • National • European • International • To reduce environmental impacts • Critical loads • Climate change

  8. Why do we need national NEC when there are other directives regulating the same emissions? • Focuses environmental policy more on outcomes rather than mechanisms • Less focus on technological performance • NEC gives certainty of outcome

  9. DON’T FORGET • National ceilings provide an additional tool for providing a high level of protection of the environment as a whole but: IPPC installation limits must be set to protect local environments !

  10. Any Questions?

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