Austria´s Annual Air Emission Inventory 1990-2010

Submission under National Emission Ceilings Directive 2001/81/EC

(Vienna, 21 Feburary 2012) The new report on Austria’s Annual Air Emission Inventory 1990–2010, compiled by the Umweltbundesamt (Environment Agency Austria), presents a summary of Austria’s provisional emission inventory for 2010 according to Article 8 of the NEC Directive. Austria’s final inventory will be submitted by 31 December 2012 at the latest.

For the period between 2009 and 2010, the data show a 7.7% increase for sulphur dioxide (SO2) and a 10.0% increase for non-methane volatile organic compounds (NMVOCs). Nitrogen oxide emissions (NOx) decreased during the same period by 1.4% and ammonia emissions (NH3) decreased by 1.5% between 2009 and 2010.

A comparison with the national emission ceilings for 2010 shows that SO2, NMVOC und NH3 were below these ceilings, whereas the NOx emissions were considerably above them.