Author(s)

A. Violova, M.G. Cremonini, P. Lombardo, I. Stenhouse, A. Kocan & I. Holoubek

Abstract

The Ministry of Environment of the Slovak Republic promoted the project entitled "Local Studies of Air Quality in the Cities of Bratislava and Kosice, National Needs Assessment of Air Pollution", with the financial support of the European Union (PHARE Program). Average life expectancy for the Slovak population is reported as one of the shortest in Europe. The Ministry of Environment recognised that without a deeper examination of Hazardous Air Pollutants in ambient air, they would not be able to assess the risk of air pollution to humans with a consequential stalling of further developments in air protection policy. The overall aim

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