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Convention on Long-range Transboundary Air Pollution

2009 calendar of meetings

Major bodies under the Convention
Date and venue
Body and session/meeting
9-13 March 2009
Geneva
Working Group on Strategies and Review
(forty-third session)
31 March - 2 April 2009 London

Implementation Committee
(twenty-third meeting)

20-23 April 2009
Geneva
Working Group on Strategies and Review
(forty-fourth session)
31 August - 4 September 2009
Geneva
Working Group on Strategies and Review
(forty-fifth session)
7-9 September 2009
Geneva
EMEP Steering Body
(thirty-third session)
22-24 September 2009
Geneva
Implementation Committee
(twenty-fourth meeting)
23-25 September 2009
Geneva
Working Group on Effects
(twenty-eighth session)
14-18 December 2009
Geneva
Executive Body for the Convention
(twenty-seventh session)
Task forces, expert groups and workshops
Date and venue
Body and session/meeting
2-5 February 2009
Braunschweig, Germany
Programme Task Force, International Cooperative Programme (ICP) on Effects of Air Pollution on Natural Vegetation and Crops (twenty-second meeting)
23-25 February 2009
Laxenburg, Austria
Tutorial workshop on the GAINS model (for the countries in Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, Central Asia and South-Eastern Europe) (Task Force on Integrated Assessment Modelling in collaboration with Centre for Integrated Assessment Modelling)
5-6 March 2009
Utrecht, the Netherlands
Workshop on non-binding aspirational targets for air pollution for the year 2050 (Task Force on Integrated Assessment Modelling)
1-3 April 2009
Madrid
Programme Task Force, ICP on Effects of Air Pollution on Materials, Including Historic and Cultural Monuments (twenty-fifth meeting)
1-3 April 2009
Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation (tentative)
Workshop on focusing on Eastern Europe, Central Asia and the Arctic (Task Force on the Hemispheric Transport of Air Pollution)
6-7 April 2009
Rome
Expert Group on Techno-economic Issues (fifteenth meeting)
28-29 April 2009
Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany
Task Force on Reactive Nitrogen (second meeting)
6-8 May 2009
Tallinn
Programme Task Force, ICP on Integrated Monitoring of Air Pollution Effects on Ecosystems (seventeenth meeting)

11-12 May 2009
Vienna

Task Force on Emission Inventories and Projections (twenty-second meeting)
11-13 May 2009
Stockholm
Coordination Centre for Effects (CCE) workshop (nineteenth meeting)
14-15 May 2009
Stockholm
Programme Task Force, ICP on Modelling and Mapping of Critical Levels and Loads and Air Pollution Effects, Risks and Trends (twenty-fifth meeting)
23-27 May 2009
Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation
Programme Task Force, ICP on Assessment and Monitoring of Air Pollution Effects on Forests (twenty-fifrth meeting)
25-26 May 2009
Bonn, Germany
Joint Task Force on the Health Aspects of Air Pollution (twelveth meeting)
27-28 May 2009 Stockholm
Task Force on Heavy Metals (sixth meeting)
2-5 June 2009
Plovdiv, Bulgaria
Task Force on POPs (seventh meeting)
8-10 June 2009
Bilthoven, the Netherlands
Task Force on Integrated Assessment Modelling (thirty-fifth meeting)
15-16 June 2009
Paris
Task Force on Measurements and Modelling (tenth meeting)
17-19 June 2009
Paris
Joint workshop on linkages between regional and global modeling and air quality and climate change (Task Force on Measurement and Modelling and Task Force on Hemispheric Transport of Air Pollution)
19 June 2009
Paris
Task Force on the Hemispheric Transport of Air Pollution
October 2009
(tentative)
Task Force on Integrated Assessment Modelling (thirty-sixth meeting)
October/November 2009
(tentative)
Task Force on Reactive Nitrogen (third meeting)
15-16 October 2009
France
Expert Group on Techno-economic Issues (sixteenth meeting)
19-21 October 2009
Burlington, Canada
Programme Task Force, ICP on Assessment and Monitoring of Acidification of Rivers and Lakes (twenty-fifth meeting)
26-28 October 2009
St Petersburg (tentative)
Joint workshop to promote ratification of the Protocol on Heavy Metals (Task Force on Heavy Metals and Expert Group on Techno-Economic Issues)
28-30 October 2009
Sitges, Spain
Joint Expert Group on Dynamic Modelling (tenth meeting)
10-12 November 2009
Ispra, Italy
Workshop on flux-based assessment of ozone effects for air pollution policy (ICP Vegetation)

Bureaux meetings in 2009

Date and venue
Body
20 January 2009
Zagreb
EMEP Steering Body: Bureau
18-19 February 2009
Geneva
Working Group on Effects: Bureau (18 February) and Extended Bureau (18-19 February)
2-4 March 2009
EMEP Steering Body: Bureau and Extended Bureau
22 September 2009
Geneva
Working Group on Effects: Bureau and Extended Bureau

Tentative 2010 calendar of meetings (for information only)

Major bodies under the Convention
Date and venue
Body and session/meeting
12-16 April 2010
Geneva
Working Group on Strategies and Review
(forty-sixth session)
30 August-3 September 2010 Geneva
Working Group on Strategies and Review
(forty-seventh session)
13-15 September 2010
Geneva
EMEP Steering Body
(thirty-fourth session)
22-24 September 2010
Geneva
Working Group on Effects
(twenty-ninth session)
13-17 December 2010
Geneva
Executive Body for the Convention
(twenty-eighth session)
Task forces, expert groups and workshops
Date and venue
Body and session/meeting
1-3 February 2010
Tervuren, Belgium
Programme Task Force, International Cooperative Programme (ICP) on Effects of Air Pollution on Natural Vegetation and Crops (twenty-third meeting)
January/February 2010
(tentative)
Task Force on Integrated Assessment Modelling (thirty-seventh meeting)
14–16 April 2010
London
Programme Task Force, ICP on Effects of Air Pollution on Materials, Including Historic and Cultural Monuments (twenty-sixth meeting)
19–21 April 2010
Paris
Coordination Centre for Effects (CCE) workshop (twentieth meeting)
22–23 April 2010
Paris
Programme Task Force, ICP on Modelling and Mapping of Critical Levels and Loads and Air Pollution Effects, Risks and Trends (twenty-sixth meeting)
26–27 April 2010 (tentative)
Bonn, Germany
Joint Task Force on the Health Aspects of Air Pollution (thirteenth meeting)
May 2010
(tentative)
Programme Task Force, ICP on Integrated Monitoring of Air Pollution Effects on Ecosystems (eighteenth meeting)
May 2010
(tentative)
Task Force on Reactive Nitrogen (fourth meeting)
May/ June 2010
(tentative)
Task Force on Integrated Assessment Modelling (thirty-eighth meeting)
29 May-2 June 2010
Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany
Programme Task Force, ICP on Assessment and Monitoring of Air Pollution Effects on Forests (twenty-sixth meeting)
Autumn 2010
(tentative)
Programme Task Force, ICP on Assessment and Monitoring of Acidification of Rivers and Lakes (twenty-sixth meeting)
Autumn 2010
(tentative)
Joint Expert Group on Dynamic Modelling (eleventh meeting)
October/November 2010 Workshop on integrated assessment modelling (Task Force on Integrated Assessment Modelling in collaboration with the Centre for Integrated Assessment Modelling)
 

Bureaux meetings in 2010

Date and venue
Body
February 2010 (tentative)
Geneva
Working Group on Effects: Bureau and Extended Bureau
1- 3 March
Geneva
EMEP Steering Body: Bureau
30 August
Geneva
Executive Body: Bureau
21 September 2010
Geneva
Working Group on Effects: Bureau and Extended Bureau

 

 

Secretariat guidelines for task forces, expert groups and workshops.