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The European Commission (EC) has sent Romania an additional reasoned opinion concerning the high daily and yearly concentration of airborne particles (PM10), prompting the Environment Ministry to call for a videoconference on the issue with county prefects.

Over 800 Bucharest residents, who died between 2004 and 2009, could have been saved if the average annual level of fine particles found in the air had been kept within the limits set by the World Health Organization, shows a research conducted by an NGO.