Exhaust Emissions and Air Quality

Timeline	Action	Comment
2021	Proposal for more stringent air pollutant emissions standards for combustion-engine vehicles	The EC has already started working on the Euro 7 exhaust emission standard
2021	The EC will notably propose to revise air quality standards to align them more closely with the World Health Organization recommendations	In November, 2019, the EC published the Fitness Check results of the EU air quality legislation which concluded that the persistent exceedances above EU air quality standards remain for several air pollutants, and especially for particulate matter (PM), nitrogen dioxide (NO2), ozone and benzo(a)pyrene – with significant impacts on human health a