Transport, a priority

Air Quality Program is a major and ambitious issue in the environment field aiming at improving the quality of air and precisely reducing road traffic exhaust gas pollution. Various studies, indeed, demonstrated that several Moroccan big cities witness pollution peaks of industrial and traffic origin. The said studies conclude to a significant correlation between the level of pollution and the increase of certain diseases of respiratory and ocular origin…

First open site: transport

To fight pollution and improve the quality of air and thus protect the health of citizen, the Air Quality program fixed a number of measures and actions. The said actions and measures concern mainly the sector of road transport and require the participation and involvement of all parties concerned:
enforcement of the decree of exhaust gas enacted in 1997.
improvement of fuel quality and encouraging the use of the new types of fuel
modernization of the urban bus fleet and streamlining of its management.
Training the agents involved in this process.
Some of these actions have been finalized, others are programmed for 2005.

Finalized actions

Introduction of 350 gas oil in the Moroccan market

Approval of exhaust gas measurement apparatuses
Centres for technical visits gradually equipped with measuring material. All the centres are now equipped thanks to the action undertaken by the Transport Ministry.
Certificate of annual technical overhauling control of vehicles: a new conception of the annual technical control of vehicles and a control guide of the activities of the technical overhauling centers.
Providing a training to all the involved parties in collaboration with the OFPPT, garage owners, people working in the centres for technical visits and those from the Royal Gendarmerie and the Department for National Security who are in charge of making the minutes, road controllers from the Equipment and Transports Ministry . This training is still going on since 2001. In 2005, more than 3000 persons will be trained.
Air quality surveillance. the Foundation and the General Department for Local Communities have initiated an operation to measure air quality in certain important urban centres of the Kingdom. Some of the equipments have been received and set up and some others are on their way to be purchased and a training program is planned to teach the concerned people how to use these equipments.
Acquisition of exhaust gas analyzers for blank control. Thanks to a partnership with MAMDA, about twenty apparatuses will be acquired for blank control.
New instructions for the urban bus companies.