The Convention on Long-range Transboundary Air Pollution and EMEP (The Cooperative Programme for Monitoring and Evaluation of the Long-range Transmission of Air Pollutants in Europe) Henning Wuester Secretariat of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe http://www.unece.org/env/lrtap (for information on the Convention) http://www.emep.int (for scientific work of EMEP)

The 49 Parties to the Convention on Long-range Transboundary Air Pollution Artic Ocean Atlantic Ocean Pacific Ocean Slovenia Hungary Slovakia Poland Lithuania Latvia Estonia Finland Sweden Georgia Norway Belarus Czech Rep. Ukraine Denmark Moldova Germany Yugoslavia Austria Bulgaria LI Turkey Italy Monaco Cyprus Switzerland Malta Netherlands Greece Belgium F.Y.R.of Macedonia Luxembourg Albania France Bosnia and Herzegovina Spain Croatia Portugal Ireland United Kingdom Romania Russian Federation Iceland Kara Sea Barents Sea North Sea Mediterranean Sea Black Sea Caspian Sea Aral Canada United States Kyrgyzstan Kazakhstan Azerbaijan Armenia Uzbekistan Turkmenistan Tajikistan

The 39 Parties to the EMEP Protocol of 1984 Artic Ocean Atlantic Ocean Pacific Ocean CA US FI NO SE RU RU EE LV DK LT IE BY GB NL PL DE BE L U . CZ SK UA KZ AT FR CH HU MD SI HR RO BA IT YU BG AL MK GE KG ES AM UZ AZ PT GR TR TM TJ CY

The main priorities under the Convention Implementation of and compliance with protocols in force: 1985 and 1994 Sulphur Protocols 1988 NOx Protocol 1991 VOC Protocol Review and extension of protocols: 1998 Protocol on POPs and Heavy Metals 1999 Gothenburg Protocol to Abate Acidification, Eutrophication and Ground-level Ozone

Intergovernmental bodies, expert groups and scientific centres under the Convention

Main decisions of the 26th session of the EMEP Steering Body (1) New guidelines for reporting of the EMEP centres – increased role of the Task Forces in reviewing new science and data New emission reporting guidelines New monitoring strategy will be developed for adoption in 2003 Integrated assessment modelling work shall examine the links between regional air pollution and climate change

Main decisions of the 26th session of the EMEP Steering Body (2) Eulerian model to be ready by Dec. 2002. High priority for its validation – call to Parties to help! Also validation of the EMEP heavy metals model Proposal to increase the budget (by 5%) in 2004 and update the assessment scale Jürgen Schneider new EMEP Chairman United Kingdom offered to take over the lead for the Task Force on Measurements and Modelling with Dick Derwent as Chairman

EMEP assessment report Report to be finalized by 2004 The Working Group on Effects prepares a substantive report for 2004 – cooperation! The review of the Gothenburg Protocol will start in 2004 The Convention will have 25 years in 2004