The Air Quality Management (AQM) framework in Great Britain is an effects-based, risk management process designed to provide a dynamic solution to public health issues associated with elevated concentrations of seven air pollutants. The statutory basis of the AQM process is provided by the Environment Act 1995, which required an air quality strategy to be published by government and enabled it to introduce a series of air quality objectives for lead, carbon monoxide, 1,3-butadiene, sulphur dioxide, nitrogen dioxide, benzene and particulate matter (PM10). The Act places a series of duties and responsibilities upon local authorities to review and assess local air quality against air quality objective set on the basis of the available epidemiological and public health information. The objectives represent the Government`s judgement of achievable air quality between the years 2003-2010. Local authorities are required to identify those areas in which air quality objectives will be exceeded by a target date and to declare these areas as Air Quality Management Areas (AQMA). In such locations a local authority must develop an action plan detailing both the measures to be taken and the timescale for implementation in order that the air quality objectives are achieved within the AQMA. This has included the development of emissions inventories, the provision of training for local authority personnel and the provision of additional financial resources to assist local authorities in purchasing equipment and technical resources.