What changed between the adopted text of 13 Sept 2023 and the adopted text of 24 Apr 2024

Removed:Annex VIII – Section B – point 2 – point d: (d) measures to limit transport emissions through urban planning and traffic management, including at least: / (i) congestion pricing, such as road pricing and mileage-based user fees; / (ii) choice of road materials; / (iii) parking fees on public land or other economic incentives and with differentiated fees for polluting and zero-emission vehicles; / (iv) establishing urban vehicles access restrictions schemes, including low emission zones in line with the most recent Euro standard, and zero-emission zones; / (v) establishing low-traffic neighbourhoods, super blocks and car-free neighbourhoods; / (vi) establishing car-free streets; / (vii) introducing low speed limits; / (viii) ‘last mile’ zero (exhaust) emission delivery arrangements; / (ix) promoting car sharing and carpooling; (x) implementation of intelligent transport systems and digital solutions related to emissions reduction; / (xi) creation of multimodal hubs connecting various sustainable transport solutions and parking facilities;

Removed:Annex VIII – Section B – point 2 – point e: (e) measures to encourage a modal shift towards active mobility and less polluting forms of transport (e.g walking, cycling, public transport or rail), including at least: / (i) electrifying public transport, strengthening the public transport network, reducing public transport cost for citizens, and simplifying access and use, for example through digital and interconnected booking and real-time transit information; / (ii) ensuring smooth inter-modality for rural-urban commuting, for example between rail and cycling, and between cars and public transport (park and ride schemes); / (iii) incentivising cycling and walking, for example by expanding space for cyclists and pedestrians, prioritising cycling and walking in infrastructure planning, expanding the network of cycling routes, and redirecting fiscal and economic incentives towards active and shared mobility, including incentives for cycling and walking commute to work; / (iv) planning for compact cities; / (v) scrappage schemes for the most polluting vehicles;

Removed:Annex VIII – Section B – point 2 – point g: (g) requiring the use of best available technologies to eliminate or, where it is not possible to eliminate, to reduce as much as possible emissions from small-, medium- and large-scale stationary sources and in mobile sources;

Removed:Annex VIII – Section B – point 2 – point h a (new): (ha) measures to reduce air pollution in air pollution hotspots, including in ports and port cities, and establishing specific requirements for ships and boats at berth and port traffic, while speeding-up on-shore power supply and electrification of ships and port working machinery;

Removed:Annex VIII – Section B – point 2 – point h b (new): (hb) reduction of emissions from road, maritime and air transport through the use of alternative fuels and deployment of alternative fuels infrastructure, as well as the use of economic incentives to accelerate their take-up;

Removed:Annex VIII – Section B – point 2 – point h c (new): (hc) measures to reduce emissions from agriculture and forestry;

Removed:Annex VIII – Section B – point 2 – point i: (i) measures to protect the health of children or other sensitive population and vulnerable groups;

Removed:Annex VIII – Section B – point 2 – point i a (new): (ia) measures by health authorities to encourage behavioural changes.

Removed:Annex VIII – Section B a (new): Ba. Guidance and minimum requirements for analysing the projected impact of air quality plans or air quality roadmaps and pollution abatement measures / 1. Member States shall rely on objective and scientific methods to assess the projected impact of air quality plans, air quality roadmaps and pollution abatement measures. Where relying on projected impacts of pollution abatement measures for the delivery of compliance with air quality objectives, those projections shall include a low level of uncertainty. / 2. Air quality plans or air quality roadmaps shall contain enough information in sufficient detail in order to justify the impact assessment, including: / (a) a description of the method used for forecasting the evolution of air quality; / (b) an explanation of whether the projections are based on objective data or on assumptions; when relying on assumptions, a sensitivity analysis to explain best-case, most likely and worst-case scenarios; / (c) background documents and information used for the assessment; / (d) an assessment of the individual impact of each air pollution abatement measure on emission reductions and related concentration reductions and the relevant assumptions; / (e) an assessment of the combined impact of the air pollution abatement measures included in the air quality plan or air quality roadmap on emission reductions and related concentration reductions and the relevant assumptions. / 3. The impact assessment shall include the margin of uncertainty of…

Removed:Annex VIII a (new): ANNEX VIIIa / EMERGENCY MEASURES TO BE CONSIDERED FOR INCLUSION IN THE SHORT-TERM ACTION PLANS REQUIRED UNDER ARTICLE 20 / 1. Measures to be taken in the short term aimed at addressing the sources which contribute to the risk of the relevant limit values, target values or alert threshold being exceeded: / (a) restricting the circulation of vehicles; / (b) low-fare or fare-free public transportation; / (c) implementing stricter emission limits; / (d) suspending operations at construction works; (e) street cleaning; (f) flexible work arrangements; / (g) introducing driving restrictions around locations frequented by sensitive population and vulnerable groups. / 3. Proactive steps to be taken in order to provide specific air pollution, health and health protection information, both to the general public and to sensitive population and vulnerable groups, by means of easily accessible, online or offline communication channels, as soon as exceedances of information and alert thresholds and of limit values and target values are projected.

Removed:Annex IX – point 1 – point b: (b) measured concentrations of all pollutants and how they compare with the most recent maximum concentrations recommended by the WHO, presented according to the appropriate periods as laid down in Annex I;

Removed:Annex IX – point 1 – point c – introductory part: (c) information on observed exceedance(s) of any limit value, ozone target value, information threshold, alert threshold, and average exposure reduction obligation, including at least:

Removed:Annex IX – point 1 – point d – point i: (i) the health impacts of air pollution, and specifically of each pollutant measured under this Directive, on general population,

Removed:Annex IX – point 1 – point d – point ii: (ii) the health impacts of air pollution, and specifically of each pollutant measured under this Directive, on vulnerable groups,

Removed:Annex IX – point 1 – point d – point iv: (iv) recommended precautions to be taken, broken down into precautions to be taken by the general population and by sensitive population and vulnerable groups, and actions to relieve the symptoms once exposure has occurred,

Removed:Annex IX – point 2 – point d: (d) information on short-term measures and preventive actions to reduce pollution and/or exposure to it: indication of main source sectors; recommendations for action to reduce emissions and limitations on exposure;