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The European Union’s clean air policies work along several lines. The European Union regulates air pollutant emissions from a multitude of sources, sets standards for concentrations of selected harmful substances in ambient air, and sets the obligation of providing information to the public. In this report, we focus on how information on air quality is provided to and perceived by the public and look at actions the cities and the civil society takes towards improvements of the quality of air. Public awareness and understanding have a central role.

The current study aims at evaluating the impact of anthropogenic emission changes on air quality and human health by using the air quality model CHIMERE. This is a continuation of the work initiated in the European Topic Centre on Climate Change Mitigation and Energy (ETC/CME; report 2019/8) on the effect of the development of renewable energy sources (RES) since 2005 on emissions of anthropogenic air pollutants.

This document provides an overview of a process by which historical E-PRTR and LCP data can be imported into the new data structures for the EU Registry and the E-PRTR and LCP integrated reporting (Thematic) dataflows, while ensuring the data remains Inspire compliant.

The report reviews the methods used to calculate damage costs per tonne of pollutant emitted and per country with a view to updating the earlier assessments of the costs of air pollution from EU industrial facilities (EEA, 2011 & 2014). The review covers the whole impact pathway assessment (IPA) route, from emissions through exposure to the quantification of health and environmental impacts and their valuation, as well as the consideration of uncertainties. The report makes recommendations with respect to the scope of the analysis (pollutants, impacts, countries, years … to cover), atmospheric dispersion modelling for different pollutants, calculation of sectoral adjustment factors and monetisation.