Emissions from ships consequently need to be reduced substantially throughout the EU, in order to attain the goal charted in the Commission’s transport policy White Paper (namely to make shipping a more sustainable mode of transport) and achieve the long-term aim laid down in the fifth and sixth environmental action programmes (whereby critical load levels and concentrations should not be exceeded and everyone should be protected effectively from the harmful health effects of air impurities).
Emissions from ships consequently need to be reduced substantially throughout the EU, in order to attain the goal charted in the Commission’s transport policy White Paper (namely to make shipping a more sustainable mode of transport) and achieve the long-term aim laid down in the fifth and sixth environmental action programmes (whereby critical load levels and concentrations should not be exceeded and everyone should be protected effectively from the harmful health effects of air impurities).