Mobile sources, i.e. self-propelled or portable devices equipped with an internal combustion engine, are a significant contributor to air pollution and the regulation of air protection against pollution from these sources is an important part of environmental law. This area of law is currently evolving and changing very rapidly, as it is closely linked to a number of current issues, in particular climate change. The question posed by the diploma thesis is what is the current level of air protection against pollution from mobile sources in the Czech Republic, whether it is sufficient, and what is the possible development in the future. Therefore, the thesis contains a comprehensive analysis of current legislation, taking into account the various approaches by which the law seeks to regulate mobile sources and their operation, and includes topics such as introducing mobile sources to the market, regulating their operation, setting fuel quality requirements; further deals with legislation on alternative fuels and, last but not least, deals with legal instruments of air protection, which aim to maintain or improve air quality in a certain area in relation to mobile sources. Given that a significant part of the current legislation in the Czech Republic is based on international, and particularly on EU law, in...

Miroslav Ottomansky Legal regulation of protection against air pollution from mobile sources The goal of this thesis is to map tools used for legal regulations of mobile pollution sources. Thesis focuses on problematic regulation of motor vehicles' pollution in Czech Republic, however it also outlines basic legal adjustements related to other mobile pollution sources. Thesis starts with basic introduction to this problematic followed by overview of international legal regulations and main conceptional tools used for legal regulations in European Union. In the chapter dedicated to the principles of european law in terms of regulation of mobile sources' pollution thesis tries to research how are those regulations already being applied to specific legal norms. One chapter is dedicated to protection of rights for convenient environment and their prosecution. In the next part of the thesis the normative regulations within emission standarts, approval of types, requirements for fuel quality and control of emissions of motor vehicles are examined. In the last chapter the new legal adjustment of mobile sources' pollution named in the law of enviroment protection is briefly explained in context with increasing number of problems with regulation of road traffic in cities. Key words: air pollution from mobile sources,...

Environmental indicators were developed and evaluated to assess the impact of mobile sources on emissions, air quality, exposure and health. Different levels of indicators are discussed, from single species to multipollutant indicators. Carbon monoxide (CO), Nitrogen oxides (NOx) and elemental carbon (EC) were chosen as indicators of mobile sources because emissions of these pollutants are largely attributed to mobile sources and ambient concentrations have a close response to the change in mobile source emissions. These pollutants were used in the construction of the integrated mobile source indicators (IMSI). The IMSI have larger spatial representativeness and stronger associations with cardiovascular diseases (CVD) than single pollutants. The use of IMSI in epidemiologic modeling constitutes an alternative approach to assess the health impact of pollutant mixtures and can provide support for the setting of multipollutant air quality standards. The human health benefits of reducing mobile sources emissions were more consistent using multipollutant indicators. Indicator values and uncertainties, in the form of indicator sets, are presented with their associated outcomes and attributes to be useful for policy makers who are interested not only in the value of the indicators, but also in their associated uncertainties and their applicability at other times and other regions.