Abstract:Portugal as a member of the European Union (EU) follows the air quality legislation regulated by Directive 2008/50/EC that states that “Member States shall ensure that timely information about actual or predicted exceedances of alert thresholds, and any information threshold is provided to the publicâ€. The southern European countries have biogenic contributions, mainly resulting from the long-distance transport of particulate matter, originated in arid regions, and from large forest fires, whose pollutants… Show more
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