This Ordinance is intended to protect human beings, animals and plants, their biological communities and habitats, and the soil against harmful effects or nuisances caused by air pollution.
It regulates:
the preventive limiting of emissions from installations, as defined in Article 7 of the Act, which pollute the air;
open-air waste incineration;
requirements for thermal and motor fuels;
maximum permitted ambient air pollution levels (ambient limit values);
the procedure in the event of excessive ambient air pollution levels.