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Republic of Latvia Cabinet Regulation No. 1290 Adopted 3 November 2009 Regulations Regarding Ambient Air Quality ? Issued pursuant to Section 12, Paragraph two and Section 17, Paragraph three of the Law On Pollution ? I. General Provisions ? 1. This Regulation prescribes quality standards for outdoor air in the troposphere (excluding workplaces) in the territory of Latvia, as well as: 1.1. deadlines for ensuring of ambient air quality standards; 1.2. permissible level of air pollutants in the environment and characteristic values thereof; 1.3. parameters, monitoring methods and methods which are used in order to determine exceedance of the relevant ambient air quality standards; and 1.4. the measures to be performed if ambient air quality standards are exceeded. ? 2. The following terms are used in this Regulation: 2.1. lower assessment threshold – a level below which modelling or objective-estimation techniques alone may be used to assess ambient air quality; 2.2. arsenic, cadmium, nickel and benzo(a)pyrene – the total content of these elements and compounds thereof in the PM10 fraction 2.3. upper assessment threshold – a level below which a combination of fixed measurements and modelling techniques or indicative measurements may be used to assess ambient air quality, or the both together; 2.4. contributions from natural sources – emissions of pollutants not caused directly or indirectly by human activities, including natural events such as volcanic eruptions, seismic activities, geothermal activities, wild-land fires, high-wind events, sea sprays or the atmospheric re-suspension or transport of natural particles from dry regions; 2.5. particulate matter PM10 – particulate matter which passes through a size-selective inlet as defined in the base (reference) method for the sampling and measurement of PM10 with a 50 % efficiency cut-off at 10 μm aerodynamic diameter; 2.6. particulate matter PM2,5 – particulate matter which passes through a size-selective inl