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A Convention on Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution p P1 age I of I R .2 2 6 _ 3 61 7 ~ UNEC E United Economic Commission. for Europe SEARCH ' , Convention News Histo ry of the Conventio Convention on Long-range Transbounda ry Air Pollution Protocol on Persistent Organic Pollutar nProtcls (POPS ) Organizational Cha rt Executive Body EMEP Steering Body The 1998 Aarhus Protocol on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) Working Group on Effects Working Group o The Executive Bod y adopted the Protocol on Persistent Organic Review and nStraegis CAPACT Publications Pollutants on 24 June 1998 in Aarhus (Denmark) . It focuses o n of 16 substances that have been singled out according to agree ( criteria . The substances comprise eleven pesticides, two industl chemicals and three by-products/contaminants . The ultimate Calendar of objective is to eliminate any discharges, emissions and losses of meetings Contacts POPs. The Protocol bans the production and use of some produc outright (aldrin, chlordane, chlordecone, dieldrin, endrin , Practical Information for pa rt icipants Convention Home hexabromobiphenyl, mirex and toxaphene) . Others are schedul elimination at a later stage (DDT, heptachlor, hexaclorobenzene PCBs) . Finally, the Protocol severely restricts the use of DDT, H( 5 Printthis page (including lindane) and PCBs . The Protocol includes provisions fc dealing with the wastes of products that will be banned . It also obliges Parties to reduce their emissions of dioxins, furans, PAH! HCB below their levels in 1990 (or an alternative year between : and 1995) . For the incineration of municipal, hazardous and mer waste, it lays down specific limit values . Convention text : En2l~ish Fre nch Russian Status of rat ific Last updated : 07/07/2005 06 :49:27 2004 United Nations Economic Commission for Europe . All rights reserv e d United Nations Economic Commission for Europe Environment and Human Settlements Division Palais des Nations CH-1211 GENEVA Switzerland Telephone : (+41-22) 917-2370 / 2354 Telefax : (+41-22) 917-010 7 Email : aicenvP_un ece.org P 00008 575 0 UUU2G U http ://www.unece .org/env/lrtap/pops-hl .htm 11/21/2005 p. 2 ~ o R, ,r ~ t~7 L~ c~~ a p W on (7 ~ p~ `, a +w C3 o v~ ~7 C7 W t #;~~ . . ~ 'p4 ,~ , ~ -: ~ ~ F~ ~ a+ ,~o w U U tit cz :'' `_~ 4Y N~~ s C ~ :. fC '~:~ 'p ~, o wl = m II ~ v L 0 ~ ~ ~u L-6 Ag ~'~ I ~ L d c~ G1 d 'S3 ~ O Oi - C m T AG" ~ ~ y,~,, ~ . ~ . ~Cr . ~ '~ L . cc P 00008575 1 000261 p. 3 SCIENTIFIC CENTRE S FOR INTERNATIONAL COOPERATIVE PROGRAMMES ( ICPs), COOPERATIVE PROGRAMME FOR MONITORING AND EVALUATION OF THE LONG-RANGE TRANSMISSION OF AIR POLLUTANTS IN EUROPE (EMEP), AND THE TASK FORCE ON INTEGRATED ASSESSMENT MODELLIN G Main Programme Coordinating Centre for ICP on Assessment and Monitoring of Air Pollution Effects on Forest s Federal Research Centre for Forestry and Forest Products Leuschnerstrasse 9 1 D-21027 Hamburg 80 German y Tel . No . : (49 40) 7396 2119 / 7396 2120 Fax No . : (49 40) 7396 248 0 E-mail : Iorenz(~)aixh0101 .holz .uni-hambur4 d e Programme Centre for ICP on Integrated Monitoring of Air Pollution Effects on Ecosystem s Finnish Environment Institute P .O . Box 14 0 FIN-00251 Helsinki Finlan d Tel . No . : (358 9) 4030 0308 Fax No . : (358 9) 4030 0390 E-mail : martin .forsiusOymparisto .fi Coordination Center for Effects for ICP on (providing also technical support to other RIVM/CC E P .O . Box 1 NL-3720 BA Bilthoven Netherlands Tel . No . : (31 30) 274 3529 Fax No . : (31 30) 274 443 5 E-mail : jean-Daul .hettelingh(a)rivm .n l Mapping of Critical Levels and bodies under the Convention) Loads Main Research Centre for ICP on Effects of Air Pollution on Historic and Cultural Monuments Swedish Corrosion Institute Roslagsvagen 10 1 S-104 05 Stockholm Swede n Tel . No . : (46 8) 674 1725 Fax . No . : (46 8) 674 178 0 E-mail : vladimir .kucera(a)corr-institute se Materials, including P 000085752 UUU262 p. 4 Programme Centre for ICP on Effects of Air Pollutants on Natural Vegetation an d Crops Centre for Ecology and Hydrology Bangor Research Uni t Deiniol Road Bangor LL57 2U P United Kingdom ( Tel . No . : (44 1248) 370 04 5 Fax No . : (44 1248) 355 365 E-mail : g .millsCa)ceh .ac .u k Programme Centre for ICP on Assessment and Monitoring of Acidification of Rivers and Lake s Norwegian Institute for Water Research Brekkeveien 1 9 P .O . Box 173 Kjelsas N-0411 Oslo Norwa y Tel . No . : (47 22) 185 100 Fax No . : (47 22) 185 20 0 E-mail : merete .iohannessen(&niva no Meteorological Synthesizing Centre - East Architector Vlasov Str ., 5 1 Moscow, 117393 Russi a Tel . +7 (095) 128 90 98 Fax +7 (095) 125 24 09 e-mail : msceCabmsceast .orQ Meteorological Synthesizing Centre-West Norwegian Meteorological Institute P .O . Box 43 Blindern N-0313 Oslo 3 Norway Tel . 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