National Emission Ceilings for Certain Atmospheric Pollutants

L.N. 383 of 2012

ENVIRONMENT AND DEVELOPMENT PLANNING ACT

(CAP. 504)

National Emission Ceilings for Certain Atmospheric Pollutants

(Amendment) Regulations, 2012

IN EXERCISE of the powers conferred by articles 61 and 62 of

the Environment and Development Planning Act, the Minister for

Tourism, Culture and the Environment, after consultation with the

Malta Environment and Planning Authority, has made the following

regulations:-

The title of these regulations is the National Emission

Ceilings (Amendment) Regulations, 2012, and these regulations shall

be read and construed as one with the National Emission Ceilings for

Certain Atmospheric Pollutants Regulations, hereinafter referred to as

"the principal regulations".

Paragraph (a) of regulation 4 of the principal regulations

shall be substituted by the following new paragraph

"(a) The competent authority shall ensure that by the

year 2010 at the latest, Malta shall limit its annual national

emissions of the pollutants sulphur dioxide (SO 2 ), nitrogen

oxides (NO X ), volatile organic compounds (VOC) and ammonia

(NH 3 ) to amounts not greater than the emission ceilings laid

down in Annex I to these regulations taking into account any

modifications which the Community may in future adopt.".

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