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(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Air Quality Standards (Amendment) Regulations 1995 and shall come into force on 31st December 1995.
(2) These regulations amend the Air Quality Standards Regulations 1989 (“the 1989 Regulations”) which implemented Council Directives 80/779/EEC, on air quality limit values and guide values for sulphur dioxide and suspended particulates, and 85/203/EEC, on air quality standards for nitrogen dioxide.
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(1) Regulation 2(2) of, and the Schedule to, the 1989 Regulations (areas temporarily exempted from the application of the limit values for suspended particulates) are hereby revoked.
(2) In regulation 6 of the 1989 Regulations (limit value for nitrogen dioxide in the atmosphere)—
(a) after the words “to ensure that”, there shall be inserted the words “throughout Great Britain”; and
(b) for the words “table in Annex I to”, there shall be substituted the words “first indent of Article 2 of”.
John Gummer
Secretary of State for the Environment
27th November 1995William Hague
Secretary of State for Wales
29th November 1995M. Forsyth
Secretary of State for Scotland
4th December 1995