Commentary on Sections Part 1 – Air quality National air quality strategy
68.Section 80 of the Environment Act 1995(1) requires the publication of a national air quality strategy.
69.Section 80(4A) of the Environment Act 1995 sets out when the national air quality strategy must be reviewed and, if appropriate, modified.
70.It provides that the strategy must, in effect, be reviewed by 1 May 2023 and, subsequently, within each period of 5 years beginning with the day on which the most recent review was completed.