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Swiss Environmental Agency Calls for Mandatory PM Filters

31 May 2005

With this year’s UN World Environment Day (5 June 2005) approaching, the director of the Swiss Agency for the Environment, Forests and Lanscapes (SAEFL), Philippe Roch, has called for specific action to improve air quality, reduce noise and provide ample green spaces in Switzerland’s towns and cities.

Among the proposed policy and regulatory actions:

  • Particulate emissions in urban areas should be halved, and dramatic reductions are required in the amount of soot released by diesel engines. The guiding principle: no diesel-powered vehicles without a particulate filter.
  • To alleviate noise problems in residential neighbourhoods, 30 km/h (18.6 mph) speed limits should be introduced as widely as possible.

The call for mandatory PM filters for all diesel engines comes as the Swiss parliament is due to debate a proposal to suspend the 2003 regulation mandating compulsory installation of diesel filters in construction machinery. (Swissinfo)

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