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Our air is too polluted by Pm10

This is a infringement proceedings from Europe because the levels of PM10 in Italy are too high. So a beautiful fine arriving to other 9 Member States that have not followed the directives in force since 2005. Air pollution has serious impacts on health, the standards must be our top priority. The extensions are allowed under certain conditions and should not delay the adoption of measures to reduce emissions. It is also essential that when the extensions are not applicable, the standards are fully respected. This is why the discretion left to the Member States will be subject to strict controls by the Commission and the 80% of pollution is caused by activities productive high density of emissions manufacture companies (27%), agriculture (40%), production of electricity, gas and water (26%) and transport. In the 1990-2006 periods the weight of manufacturing activities in the generation of air emissions decreased significantly for the pollutants that cause the formation of troposphere ozone. Via

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