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EU policymakers have long focused on the quality of outdoor air, drawing up strategies and targets for reducing harmful emissions of pollutants from cars and heavy industries.
However, a recent EU-funded research project found that levels of many harmful air pollutants are greater indoors than outdoors. And while EU rules are patchy, Europeans have been growing into an increasingly sedentary people, spending on average 80% of their time indoors.

Contributors include:

• Linda McAvan MEP
• Natacha GRENIER, Policy Officer Health Determinants, DG SANCO
• Michaela HOLL, Energy Efficiency and Intelligent Energy, DG ENER
• Olli SEPPÄNEN, Secretary General REHVA
• Anne STAUFFER, Deputy Director Air Quality, Health and Environment Alliance
• Susanna Palkonen, Executive Officer, European allergies association EFA
• Simon Birkett, Founder and Director of Clean Air in London

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