Tag: JRC

Monitoring water and air quality, forecasting crop production, improving airline safety, preventing forest fires, managing crisis and humanitarian aid and preventing fraud in agriculture are just a few examples of direct benefits from satellites observing the Earth.

An EU consortium of public and private researchers has developed innovative construction materials capable of capturing and eliminating air pollutants.

The balance between the European citizens' security and privacy in the post-11 September digital context is the focus of a new study by the Commission's Joint Research Centre.

The high summer temperatures are leading to potentially harmful ground-level ozone concentrations in several Member States, giving rise to new calls for a stricter EU policy on air pollution.

On 13 March 2002, the European Parliament voted on the proposed programme for "Clean Air for Europe" (CAFE). The rapporteur's opinion was accepted without any problems.

The Conciliation Committee between the European Parliament and the Council reached a compromise on the directive on summer time ozone levels. The compromise foresees that Member States will have to ensure that WHO standards for ozone levels are not exceeded more than 25 days each year from 2010 onwards.

In second reading of ozone directive, European Parliament calls for stricter rules to limit ozone levels in ambient air

EU environment ministers agreed on new measures to curb air pollution from power generators and set ceilings for four major air pollutants.