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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 11674

24 November 2016
EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT PLENARY / Environment
Parliament approves agreement on revision of NEC directive
Brussels, 23/11/2016 (Agence Europe)

A further step was taken in Strasbourg on Wednesday 23 November towards significantly improving air quality in the EU by 2030. It was by a comfortable majority (499 votes to 177, with 28 abstentions) that MEPs formally approved the inter-institutional agreement on the revision of the directive on the national emission ceilings for certain pollutants (2003/235/EC, known as the NEC directive).

The pollutants covered are sulphur dioxide (SO2), nitrogen oxides (NOx), non-methane volatile organic...

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