Federal / State Working Group on Immission Control
The Federal / State Working Group on Immission Control ( LAI ) was founded in 1964 by the ministries responsible for occupational health and safety in the federal states of the Federal Republic of Germany and was initially called the State Committee for Immission Control .
Structure and tasks
The Federal / State Working Group on Immission Control is a working committee of the Conference of Environment Ministers (UMK).
Members of the LAI are the respective heads of the highest state authorities for pollution control and representatives of the federal government, who meet at least twice a year - in good time before the respective meetings of the ACK / UMK - for the LAI general assemblies. The chairmanship of the LAI changes every two years in alphabetical order between the federal states.
activities
Working groups have been and are being set up for the various topics of immission control. At the end of the 1980s, for example, a working group dealt with exposure to carcinogenic air pollutants and presented a final report on this in August 1991. According to this, the pollution with diesel soot particles in metropolitan areas was about 8 times as high as in rural areas, with benzene even 10 times as high. In the case of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH) , the pollution was 2.5 times higher in the large cities, and even 6 times higher in Berlin. This and other work results contributed to the introduction of an air quality directive (1996) at European level .
With the adoption of the "Guideline for the Measurement and Assessment of Light Immissions " ( Light Guideline ) in May 1993, the State Committee for Immission Control (LAI) made a system available to the responsible immission control authorities for the first time to assess light pollution .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Assessment criteria for limiting the risk of cancer from air pollution, August 1991