Some of the measures will be embedded in an amendment to the Czech law on air, he added. The Czech Environment Ministry also plans to tighten Czech president signs amendment on special police agents ...
Waste from Czech damp transported back to Germany ... the technical demands for solid fuel boilers and improve the system of car technical checks. Roads are to be relocated to less populated areas, which should also decrease the fine particles level in cities, Kaspar said. The new EU directive requires a 20-percent reduction in the concentration of fine particles in urban areas by 2020 from their levels in 2010. Czech Environment Minister Martin Bursik (Greens) considers fine particles in the air one of the major environmental problems. The Environment Ministry has welcomed the new EU directive, though it says it will be complicated for the Czech Republic to meet the requirements. The worst situation in this respect is in the Ostrava and Karvina areas, north Moravia, where the amount of fine particles in the air is twice higher than the limit that should be reached by 2015. Out of the 25 Czech localities where the fine particles are monitored, 14 contain a considerably higher amount than the limit.
According to doctors, dust and other particles annually claim some 350,000 lives in the EU only. Moreover, a number of analyses conclude that fine particles lower the EU's GDP by dozens of billions of euros a year.
(Ceske Noviny)
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