Considerations on COM(2024)315 - Authorisation of the Commission to negotiate the revision of the Protocol to the 1979 Convention on Long-range Transboundary Air Pollution to Abate Acidification, Eutrophication and Ground-level Ozone, as amended in 2012 (Gothenburg Protocol)

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dossier COM(2024)315 - Authorisation of the Commission to negotiate the revision of the Protocol to the 1979 Convention on Long-range Transboundary ...
document COM(2024)315
date July 29, 2024
 
(1) The Protocol to the 1979 Convention on Long-range Transboundary Air Pollution to Abate Acidification, Eutrophication and Ground-level Ozone (also known as the Gothenburg Protocol (‘the Protocol’))14 was adopted on 30 November 1999 and amended in 2012.

(2) The European Union is a Party to the 1999 Protocol and to the amended Protocol.15

(3) The national emission reduction commitments of the Protocol are implemented into Union law through Directive (EU) 2016/2284 on the reduction of national emissions of certain atmospheric pollutants16.

(4) The Convention Executive Body launched the process to revise the Protocol at its forty-third session in December 202317.On this basis, negotiations on amendments to the Protocol are expected to start at the 44th session of the Executive Body on 9-12 December 2024.

(5) The Commission is hereby authorised to negotiate, on behalf of the Union, the revision of the Protocol to the 1979 Convention on Long-range Transboundary Air Pollution to Abate Acidification, Eutrophication and Ground-level Ozone, as amended in 2012.