Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 2 June 2004
64 Mr. Boyle asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the progress being made to bring forward a directive on arsenic, cadmium, mercury and nickel as well as polyaromatic hydrocarbons and a further directive covering ozone which was expected for early 2004. [16610/04]
View answerThe Council of Environment Ministers and the European Parliament have reached a first reading agreement advising Ireland's current EU Presidency on the proposal for a directive relating to arsenic, cadmium, nickel and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in ambient air. It is expected that the proposal will be formally adopted in the second half of this year, and transposition into national law will be required within 24 months following the directive's publication.
The latest ozone related directive is Council Directive 2002/3/ EC relating to ozone in ambient air. I made the Ozone in Ambient Air Regulations 2004 transposing this directive into national law on 11 February 2004. My Department is not aware of further ozone related proposals at EU level at this time.
