Future Air Quality in Danish cities

Preface

Background

The EU Commission has in co-operation with the European Auto- and Oil industry carried out the Auto-Oil Programme. The aim of the programme was to identify cost effective methods to comply to future EU air quality standards in cities in 2010. Based on the study, EU directives have been proposed and partly approved to regulate vehicle emissions and fuel qualities.

Objectives

The aim of the present project is to evaluate the impact on the future air quality in selected Danish cities of the new EU directives and proposals on vehicle emissions and fuel qualities. Furthermore, the objective is to compare the estimated future air quality with air quality limit values for protection of human health approved or proposed by EU as well as air quality guidelines by WHO and the Danish EPA.

Steering Committee

The project has been carried out by: Steen Solvang Jensen, Ruwim Berkowicz, Morten Winther, Finn Palmgren and Zahari Zlatev from the National Environmental Research Institute. The report has been writing by Steen Solvang Jensen with contributions from Morten Winther (vehicle emissions, Chapter 3) and Finn Palmgren (assessment of particulate air pollution, Section 6.6).

A Steering committee has conducted the project: Chairman: Erik Iversen, the Danish EPA and members: Poul Bo Larsen, the Danish EPA, Gitte Ploug Lorenzen, the EPA of Municipality of Copenhagen, Ole Hertel, National Environmental Research Institute, Jesper Schramm, the Technical University of Denmark.

Funding

The project is primarily financed by the Danish EPA with co-funding by the National Environmental Research Institute.

Project Period

The present project started in the late autumn of 1998 and terminated January 2000.

Electronic Version of Report

An electronic version of this report is posted on the web site of the Danish EPA at www.mst.dk.

Information About Air Pollution

Additional information about air pollution in Denmark can be obtained at the web site of the National Environmental Research Institute under the Department of Atmospheric Environment at http://www.dmu.dk/atmosphericenvironment