Exploring the Links between the World Health Organisation Guidelines and the EU Air Quality Law: Scientific Authority and the Lawmaking Process
(2024) Rethinking Environmental Law — submitted
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- The European Environment Agency recently underlined that air pollution is still one of the largest environmental health issues in the European Union (EU). In the field of air quality, the World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines infuse EU legislation: not only are they taken into consideration by the Ambient Air Quality Directive, but the 2022 Proposal for a recast of the Directive on ambient air quality and cleaner air in the European Union also aims at a closer alignment with the guidelines. These non-binding norms tend to have significant influence in the EU lawmaking process, based on the authority they bear. This contribution aims to demonstrate that the analysis of the guidelines’ development process enables a better understanding of how air quality standards are constructed. Such an analysis could be better reflected within the EU lawmaking process.
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Bertaux, C. (2024). Exploring the Links between the World Health Organisation Guidelines and the EU Air Quality Law: Scientific Authority and the Lawmaking Process. In Endrius Cocciolo, Jordi Jaria-Manzano, Aitana De la Varga Pastor & Maria Marquès-Banqué (ed.), Rethinking Environmental Law. Intersentia. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/269387