Open AccessEvaluation of the Directive 2008/50/EC on Ambient Air Quality
Author(s) -
Vinicius Valente Bayma,
Marina Langkamp
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
science for sustainability journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2666-7940
DOI - 10.53466/veri6053.s4slab
Subject(s) - directive , air quality index , cohesion (chemistry) , relevance (law) , member states , european union , environmental economics , added value , business , quality (philosophy) , environmental resource management , risk analysis (engineering) , environmental planning , computer science , environmental science , political science , geography , economics , international trade , finance , law , meteorology , philosophy , chemistry , organic chemistry , epistemology , programming language
The EU Directive 2008/50/EC on Ambient Air Quality and Cleaner Air for Europe is one of the actions taken at the European Levelto reach sustainable air quality levels that do not threaten the Environment and EU citizens across EU Member States. After over 10 years, it was considered appropriate to evaluate the EU intervention with the aim to comment, on its shortcomings and to provide policy recommendations. According to the EU “better regulation guidelines”, every assessment should use the evaluation criteria framework and investigate five main aspects of the intervention, namely effectiveness, efficiency, coherence, relevance and EU added value. Although this framework must guide every evaluation, the level of investigation implemented for each of the five criteria stills depends on the initiative being assessed, as well as the timing and data reliability. The analysis of the five criteria demonstrated a solid difficulty in implementing EU-wide measures to improve air quality. Although there’s no doubt about the relevance, cohesion and EU-added value aspects of the Directive, its efficiency and effectiveness can be debated.