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CONVENTION ON LONG-RANGE TRANSBOUNDARY
AIR POLLUTION
Objectives
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To protect man and his environment against air pollution and
to endeavour to limit and, as far as possible, gradually reduce and
prevent air pollution, including long-range transboundary air
pollution.
Summary of provisions
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(a) By means of exchanges of information, consultation,
research and monitoring, policies and strategies to be developed
without undue delay which will serve as a means of combating the
discharge of air pollutants;
(b) Cooperation in the conduct of research into and/or
development of:
(i) Existing and proposed technologies for reducing
emissions of sulphur compounds and other major air
pollutants, including technical and economic
feasibility, and their environmental consequences;
(ii) Instrumentation and other techniques for
monitoring and measuring emission rates and
ambient concentrations of air pollutants;
(iii)Improved models for better understanding of the transmission of long-range transboundary air
pollutants;
(iv)The effects of sulphur compounds and other major
air pollutants on human health and the
environment, including agriculture, forestry,
materials, aquatic and other natural ecosystems
and visibility, with a view to establishing a
scientific basis for dose/effect relationships
designed to protect the environment;
(v)Education and training programmes related to the
environmental aspects of pollution by sulphur
compounds and other major air pollutants;
(c) An Executive Body to be established within the framework
of the Senior Advisers to ECE Governments on Environmental
Programmes, which shall:
(i)Review the implementation of the Convention;
(ii)Establish, as appropriate, working groups to
consider matters related to the implementation and
development of the Convention, and to this end to
prepare appropriate studies and other
documentation and submit recommendations to be
considered by the Executive Body;
(iii)Fulfil such other functions as may be appropriate
under the provisions of the Convention.
Membership
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Open for accession by the member States of the Economic
Commission for Europe, as well as States having consultative status
with the Commission and by regional economic integration
organizations constituted by sovereign States members of the
Commission.
Date of adoption 13.11.1979
Place of adoption Geneva, Switzerland
Date of entry into force 16. 3.1983
Languages English, French, Russian
Depositary Secretary-General of the
United Nations
Participant Signature Succession (S) Entry into
Ratification force
Acceptance (At)
Approval (Ap)
Accession (Ac)
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Austria 13.11.1979 16.12.1982 16. 3.1983
Belarus 14.11.1979 13. 1.1980 16. 3.1983
Belgium 13.11.1979 15. 7.1982 16. 3.1983
Bulgaria 14.11.1979 9. 6.1981 16. 3.1983
Canada 13.11.1979 15.12.1981 16. 3.1983
Cyprus 20.11.1991 (Ac) 20.11.1991
Czechoslovakia 13.11.1979 23.12.1983 23.12.1983
Denmark 14.11.1979 18. 6.1982 16. 3.1983
Finland 13.11.1979 15. 4.1981 16. 3.1983
France 13.11.1979 3.11.1981 (Ap) 16. 3.1983
Germany* 13.11.1979 15. 7.1982 16. 3.1983
Greece 14.11.1979 30. 8.1983 30. 8.1983
Holy See 14.11.1979
Hungary 13.11.1979 22. 9.1980 16. 3.1983
Iceland 13.11.1979 5. 5.1983 3. 8.1983
Ireland 13.11.1979 15. 7.1982 16. 3.1983
Italy 14.11.1979 15. 7.1982 16. 3.1983
Liechtenstein 14.11.1979 22.11.1983 20. 2.1984
Luxembourg 13.11.1979 15. 7.1982 16. 3.1983
Netherlands 13.11.1979 15. 7.1982 (At) 16. 3.1983
Norway 13.11.1979 13. 2.1981 16. 3.1983
Poland 13.11.1979 19. 7.1985 17.10.1985
Portugal 14.11.1979 29. 9.1980 16. 3.1983
Romania 14.11.1979 27. 2.1991 27. 2.1991
Russian Federation** 13.11.1979 22. 5.1980 16. 3.1983
San Marino 14.11.1979
Slovenia 6. 7.1992 (S) 6. 7.1992
Spain 14.11.1979 15. 6.1982 16. 3.1983
Sweden 13.11.1979 12. 2.1981 16. 3.1983
Switzerland 13.11.1979 6. 5.1983 4. 8.1983
Turkey 13.11.1979 18. 4.1983 17. 7.1983
Ukraine 14.11.1979 5. 6.1980 16. 3.1983
United Kingdom of
Great Britain and
Northern Ireland*** 13.11.1979 15. 7.1982 16. 3.1983
United States of
America 13.11.1979 30.11.1981 (At) 16. 3.1983
Yugoslavia 13.11.1979 18. 3.1987 18. 3.1987
European Economic
Community 14.11.1979 15. 7.1982 (Ap) 16. 3.1983
* With a Declaration.
** Declaration received by depositary on 20. 4.1983.
*** The Convention is also effective in respect of the Bailiwick
of Jersey, the Isle of Man, Gibraltar and the United Kingdom Sovereign
Base Areas of Akrotiri and Dhekelia in the Island of Cyprus.
Convention Secretariat
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United Nations Economic Commission for Europe
Palais des Nations
CH-1211 Geneva 10
Switzerland
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