Proposal for a Council Decision on the acceptance of the Amendments to the 1998 Protocol to the 1979 Convention on Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution on Persistent Organic Pollutants

The 1979 Convention on Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution (the LRTAP Convention) concluded under the auspices of the UN Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) is the main international legal framework for cooperation and measures to limit and gradually reduce and prevent air pollution and its adverse effects upon human health and the environment in the UNECE region, with a specific focus on long-range transboundary air pollution. The LRTAP Convention was signed on behalf of the European Economic Community on 14 November 1979 and approved by Council Decision 81/462/EEC of 11 June 1981.

To date, the LRTAP Convention has been extended by eight Protocols, including the 1998 Aarhus Protocol on Persistent Organic Pollutants (the Protocol). This Protocol aims to control, reduce or eliminate discharges, emissions and losses of persistent organic pollutants (POPs). The accession of the Community to the Protocol was approved on behalf of the Community by Council Decision 2004/259/EC of 19 February 2004.

EUR-Lex: COM(2014)749: Follow the progress of this proposal through the decision-making procedure http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/HIS/?uri=COM:2014:749:FIN

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