Commentary on Sections Part 1 – Air quality Chapter 1 – National targets Section 9 – Reporting in relation to section 1
46.Section 9 requires the Welsh Ministers, as soon as practicable after the end of each reporting period, to publish and lay before the Senedd a report on the consideration they have given during that reporting period to setting long-term targets under section 1.
47.Subsection (4) explains that the reporting periods are the period of two years beginning with the day on which section 1 comes into force and each subsequent period of 12 months.
48.Subsection (2) lists the pollutants that the report must, in particular, address. These are (a) ammonia, (b) PM10 (as defined in section 1(8)), (c) ground level ozone, (d) nitrogen dioxide, (e) carbon monoxide and (f) sulphur dioxide.
49.Subsection (3) provides that the report does not have to address a pollutant if regulations have been made under section 1 in relation to that pollutant.