As the EU legislation covering air quality starts to bite, many problems with compliance are emerging. The compliance issues are most acute for particulate matter (PM), nitrogen dioxide and ozone, leading to breaches of Directive requirements in many member states across the EU. In addition to these regulatory issues, air quality issues are gaining a high profile in several specific cases such as airports, shipping and major international events, for example the 2012 Olympics.

The conference will focus on these major current challenges and how technology and regulation should be adapting to address the challenges of the future.The conference will be introduced by internationally recognised experts to set the scene at the national and European level. It will bring together leading scientists and policy makers, and will provide a broad and up-to-date survey of regulatory and scientific issues, including health effects and future perspectives.


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  Measuring Air Pollutants by Diffusive Sampling
     and Other Low Cost Monitoring Techniques

     Krakow - 15th to 17th September 2009

Since the successful conferences on Diffusive Sampling in Luxembourg in 1986 and in Montpellier in 2001, the role of the technique in the assessment of air pollution has changed dramatically. With the development of the EU Air Quality Directive, the Daughter Directives and the recent Directive ‘on Ambient Air Quality and Cleaner Air for Europe’, importance of the diffusive sampling has been further recognised and widely implemented. Although formally only used in the workplace, the technique is now accepted for ambient air and indoor air monitoring and personal exposure assessment. In later years, the monitoring has been enhanced by other low cost methods, including sensors and miniature instrumentation.

It is now considered appropriate to organize a third conference to present the state of art and the newest developments in the field. This Krakow Conference offers a good opportunity to bring together scientists, air quality managers and manufacturers, to exchange experiences and thoughts about the new applications.


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