Contents

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
1 INTRODUCTION
            1.1 Approach
            1.2 Methodology
            1.3 Structure of the Report
2 BACKGROUND
            2.1 Scenarios for Emissions Abatement
            2.2 Earlier Analyses
            2.3 Issues in Benefits Analysis and Cost-Benefit Analysis (CBA)
3 METHODS - COSTS
            3.1 Development of Cost Curves
            3.2 Mapping Emission Totals
4 RESULTS - COSTS
            4.1 Overall Costs
            4.2 Regioanl Costs
5 METHODS - BENEFITS
            5.1 Overview
            5.2 Effects of the Pollutants
            5.3 Sources of Data for the Analysis
            5.4 Characterising Uncertainties
6 RESULTS - BENEFITS
            6.1 Pollutant Exposures
            6.2 Critical Loads Exceedence
            6.3 Results for impacts on crops, materials, mortality and respiratory hospital admissions
            6.4 Application of additional exposure-response functions identified by COMEAP
            6.5 Application of EAHEAP Valuations
            6.6 Valuation of additional effects for which COMEAP provided functions
            6.7 Chronic effects on mortality
            6.8 Application of other Functions and valuations used in the studies for UNECE and the EC
            6.9 Comparison of Costs and Benefits
7 CONCLUSIONS
8 APPENDICES
            Appendix 1: Abbreviations and terminology
            Appendix 2: Scenario data from RAINS
            Appendix 3: Monitoring for the proposed Ozone Directive
            Appendix 4: Analysis using HARM and ELMO
            Appendix 5: Analysis using RAINS and ASAM
            Appendix 6: Detailed results for acidification and eutrophication
            Appendix 7: Inputs to the benefits analysis
            Appendix 8: Full results from the cost-benefit analysis
            Appendix 9: References
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