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Convention on Long-range Trans-boundary Air
Pollution

• Cost-effective control of urban air pollution
• Task Force on Integrated Assessment Modelling
  (TFIAM),
• Task Force on Measurement and Modelling (TFMM)
• 1617 November 2006, Laxenburg, Austria
• Matti Johansson

UNITED NATIONS ECONOMIC COMMISSION FOR EUROPE
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50 Parties to the Convention
Kazakhstan
Kyrgyzstan
Azerbaijan
UNITED NATIONS
ECONOMIC COMMISSION FOR EUROPE
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Organization of the Convention
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The Protocols

• Implementation of and compliance with
• 1984 EMEP Protocol
• 1985 and 1994 Sulphur Protocols
• 1988 NOx Protocol
• 1991 VOC Protocol
• 1998 Heavy Metals Protocol
• review finishes 2006
• 1998 POP Protocol
• mechanisms to amend the Protocol discussed in Dec
  2006
• 1999 Gothenburg Protocol
• multi-pollutant multi-effect
• review 2006-2007
• what has happened in ten years?

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2006-2007 review of the 1999 Gothenburg Protocol

• Main review document
• protocol effectiveness
• challenges to reduce remaining/new effects
• particulate matter?
• timetable for submissions
• first draft Nov 2006 final draft May 2007
  final report Sep 2007
• Other review reports
• Working Group on Effects
• EMEP/MSC-W
• TFIAM

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Workshop outcome

• Reporting conclusions and recommendations to the
  Convention
• Long-range contribution at urban level
• Non-technical measures
• Policies in countries in Eastern Europe, the
  Caucasus and Central Asia (EECCA)
• Links to other programmes