Air pollution control legislation

Finnish air pollution control legislation covers both limit and guideline values for ambient air quality and regulations limiting emissions of air pollutants. Air pollution control legislation is partly national but in most cases based on the following legislation of the European Union. Finnish legislation is published in Finnish and Swedish. More detailed information is available in Finnish and Swedish versions of this web page.

Ambient air quality

• EUR-Lex: Directive 2008/50/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on ambient air quality and cleaner air for Europe 

Paints, varnishes and the use of organic solvents

• EUR-Lex: Directive 2004/42/CE of the European Parliament and of the Council on the limitation of emissions of volatile organic compounds due to the use of organic solvents in certain paints and varnishes and vehicle refinishing products and amending Directive 1999/13/EC 
• EUR-Lex: Directive 2010/75/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council on industrial emissions ; Chapter V and Annex VII contain provisions for installations and activities using organic solvents

Non-road mobile machinery emissions

• EUR-Lex: Regulation (EU) 2016/1628 of the European Parliament and of the Council on requirements relating to gaseous and particulate pollutant emission limits and type-approval for internal combustion engines for non-road mobile machinery, amending Regulations (EU) No 1024/2012 and (EU) No 167/2013, and amending and repealing Directive 97/68/EC 

Petrol vapour recovery during refuelling of motor vehicles

• EUR-Lex: Directive 2009/126/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on Stage II petrol vapour recovery during refuelling of motor vehicles at service stations 

Fuel environmental specifications

• EUR-Lex: Directive 2009/30/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Directive 98/70/EC as regards the specification of petrol, diesel and gas-oil and introducing a mechanism to monitor and reduce greenhouse gas emissions and amending Council Directive 1999/32/EC as regards the specification of fuel used by inland waterway vessels and repealing Directive 93/12/EEC 
• EUR-Lex: Directive (EU) 2016/802 of the European Parliament and of the Council relating to a reduction in the sulphur content of certain liquid fuels 

Energy production and waste incineration

• EUR-Lex: Directive 2010/75/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council on industrial emissions ; Chapter III and Annex V contain provisions for large combustion plants; Chapter IV and Annex VI contain provisions for waste incineration plants and for waste co-incineration plants

• EUR-Lex: Commission Implementing Decision 2012/249/EU concerning the determination of start-up and shut-down periods for the purposes of Directive 2010/75/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council on industrial emissions

• EUR-Lex: Directive (EU) 2015/2193 of the European Parliament and of the Council on the limitation of emissions of certain pollutants into the air from medium combustion plants 

Ecodesign requirements for solid fuel boilers and for solid fuel local space heaters

• EUR-Lex: Commission Regulation (EU) 2015/1189 of 28 April 2015 implementing Directive 2009/125/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council with regard to ecodesign requirements for solid fuel boilers 
• EUR-Lex: Commission Regulation (EU) 2015/1185 of 24 April 2015 implementing Directive 2009/125/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council with regard to ecodesign requirements for solid fuel local space heaters