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Fewer summer ozone peaks in 2012, but levels still harmful

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News Published 31 Jan 2013 Last modified 21 Jun 2016

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Ozone pollution still exceeded target levels in Europe during summer 2012, but the number of exceedances of the alert threshold was lower than in any year since monitoring started in 1997. However, almost all EU Member States failed to keep levels of the pollutant within targets set to protect human health.