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EUROPEAN COMMISSION DIRECTORATE GENERAL ENVIRONMENT, NUCLEAR SAFETY AND CIVIL PROTECTION

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   MACBETH (Monitoring of Atmospheric Concentration of Benzene in European Towns and Homes) is a project co-financed by the European Commission within the LIFE program.
   The project is comprised among the preparatory actions aimed at helping the application of common policies and laws for environmental protection, with special concern to the safeguard of human beings from atmospheric pollution. The aim was to provide the European law-makers with the correlation between benzene urban pollution level and citizen exposure, in view of the issuing of a Directive that should regulate benzene urban levels within December the 31th 1999^[a].

For further information please address to:

Vincenzo Cocheo FONDAZIONE SALVATORE MAUGERI-IRCCS Centro di Ricerche Ambientali via Svizzera, 16 I-35127 Padova (Italy) Phone 0039 0498 064 511 fax 0039 0498 064 555 e.mail fsmpd@tin.it

Emile De Saeger Joint Research Centre - ERLAP I-21020 Ispra (Italy) phone 0039 0332 785 841 fax 0039 0332 785 236 e.mail emile.de-saeger@jrc.it

Eddy Goelen Vlaamse Instelling voor Technologisch Onderzoek Boeretang 200 B-2400 Mol (Belgium) phone 0032 14 33 50 30 fax 0032 14 33 50 90 e.mail goelene@vito.be

Henrik Skov National Environmental Research Institute Frederiksborgvej 399 DK-Roskilde (Denmark) phone 0045 46 301 200 fax 0045 46 301 214 e.mail hsk@dmu.dk

Norbert Gonzalez Institut National de l'Environnement Industriel et de Risques Parc Technologique ALATA F-60555 Verneuil-en-Halatte (France) phone 0033 3 44 55 65 67 fax 0033 3 44 55 63 02 e.mail norbert.gonzalez@ineris.fr

Agustin Minana Aznar Departamento Ingenieria Quimica-Murcia Universidad de Murcia Campus de Espinardo E-30071 Murcia (Spain) phone 0034 968 307 100 fax 0034 968 364 148

[a]	The european Directive 96/62/EC, known as Framework Directive on Air Pollution, obliges the Council to issue, within 31st December 1999, daughter directives whose aim is the fixing of limiting-values in air for seven pollutants, including benzene.

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