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A table of PM10 air quality indices reveals differences in air quality alert levels (Source: European Court of Auditors)<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n The team behind the report also found that in half of the cities they visited, air quality monitoring stations that had regularly reported exceedences had been subsequently taken offline. It found that most member states had failed to properly follow EU laws on air pollution.<\/p>\n Margherita Tolotto<\/strong>, EEB Air Quality Policy Officer said:<\/p>\n \u00a0\u201cEuropean air quality laws are breached on a continental scale, yet the scientific evidence is clear: the limits the EU has set are still not strong enough to effectively protect our health. Governments must wake up to this crisis and start to take the threat posed by toxic air more seriously.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n On the differences between city-level warning systems<\/strong> she said:<\/p>\n It\u2019s unacceptable that such stark\u00a0differences exist between air quality warning systems. Children are particularly vulnerable to poor air quality and parents have the right to be effectively warned about dangerous air pollution, which should be defined by the concentration of pollutants in the air and not depend on the city they live in.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n On the removal of air quality monitoring stations<\/strong>:<\/p>\n \u201cIt’s also unacceptable that monitoring stations that have previously registered high levels of pollution have not always been kept online.\u00a0 This is the air-quality equivalent of removing speeding cameras because they were or they could be issuing too many tickets\u201d.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Tolotto<\/strong> concluded:<\/p>\n \u201cWe support the report\u2019s findings and look forward to additional action to protect people across the EU from the dangers of polluted air.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n The European Environmental Bureau (EEB) is Europe\u2019s largest network of environmental organisations with 141 members in over 30 countries.<\/em><\/p>\n The EEB has called on the EU to do more to enforce existing air quality laws and for national governments to take serious steps to bring European air quality into line with the latest World Health Organisation (WHO) recommendations. The EEB also supports a harmonization of warning systems and tighter rules for locating monitoring stations.<\/p>\n