Most EU Member States are likely to miss their targets for 2020 and 2030 set by the new National Emission Ceilings Directive (EU 2016/2284, known as the NEC Directive), according to the European Commission's first report on the implementation of this directive, which was published on Friday 26 June.
This key directive in the ‘Clean Air for Europe’ package aims to halve the number of premature deaths per year from air pollution by 2030.
It covers five major pollutants — nitrogen oxides...