Highlights of the First Session of the Meeting of the Parties to the Protocol
The first session of the Meeting of the Parties to the 2003 Kiev Protocol on Pollutant Release and Transfer Registers took place on 20-22 April 2010.
Despite difficulties caused by disruption to air travel resulting from the eruption of an Icelandic volcano, the meeting went ahead as planned. The Meeting adopted the Geneva Declaration and a set of decisions establishing the framework for future activities under the Protocol, ie. the Rules of Procedure, the Review of Compliance, Financial Arrangements, Reporting and Implementation mechanisms.
The Meeting established the Working of the Parties and a compliance mechanism. It also elected its Bureau and the members of the Compliance Committee.
To learn more please consult the documents below and read the press release about the PRTR MOPP1.
Documents
Documents adopted by the Meeting of the Parties, including the Geneva Declaration, decisions taken by the Parties and the meeting report
Document Title | ENG | FRE | RUS |
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Annotated agenda | |||
Report of the first session of the Meeting of the Parties to the Protocol on PRTR | |||
Declaration and Decisions adopted by the Meeting of the Parties |
These documents were presented for possible action by delegations (for signature, endorsement, approval or adoption). They were generally submitted through and endorsed by the Working Group on PRTRs.
Document Title | ENG | FRE | RUS |
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Provisional agenda | |||
Status of Signature, Ratification, Acceptance and Approval of and Accession to the Protocol on Pollutant Release and Transfer Registers | |||
Draft Geneva Declaration | |||
Draft Decision on Rules of Procedure | |||
Draft Decision on Review of Compliance | |||
Draft Decision on Financial Arrangements | |||
Draft Decision on the Establishment of the Working Group of the Parties to the Protocol | |||
Draft Decision on Reporting on Implementation of the Protocol | |||
Draft Decision on the Procedures for the Preparation, Adoption and Monitoring of Work Programmes and on the Work Programme for 2011–2014 | |||
Programme for High-Level Discussion |
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This section includes the presentations that were given during the High-level segment of MOPP-1.
Document Title | ENG |
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Welcome Address by Andrey Vasilyev on behalf of Mr. Ján Kubiš, United Nations Under-Secretary-General, Executive Secretary of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe | |
Mr. Jan Dusik, Chair of the Meeting of the Parties to the Aarhus Convention | |
Mr. Daniel Martin-Montalvo, European PRTR (E-PRTR) desk officer, on behalf of Ms. Soledad Blanco, Director of Directorate C – Industry in DG Environment of the European Commission | |
Dr. Gérard Poffet, Vice Director of the Federal Office for the Environment, Switzerland | |
Ms. María Jesús Rodríguez-de-Sancho, Director General of Air Quality and Industrial Environment, General Directorate of Environmental Quality and Assessment, Ministry of the Environment and Rural & Marine Affairs, Spain | |
Mr. Hrvoje Curko, Croatian Permanent Mission to the United Nations in Geneva, on behalf of Mrs. Marijana Mance Kowalsky, Director of the Directorate for International Co-operation and Sustainable Development, Ministry of Environmental Protection, Physical Planning and Construction, Croatia | |
Ms. Mary Taylor, Friends of the Earth Europe, United Kingdom | |
Ms. Ana María Contreras-Vigil, Director General of Air Quality Management and Pollutant Release and Transfer Registers, Secretariat of the Environment and Natural Resources, Mexico | |
Mr. Andrzej Jagusiewicz, Chief Inspector of Environmental Protection, Poland | |
Dr. Joachim Heidemeier, Head of Section on Emissions to Water, Federal Environment Agency, Germany | |
Mr. Lars Petter Bingh, Senior Adviser, Climate and Pollution Agency, Norway | |
Ms. Magdolna Toth Nagy, Senior Expert, on behalf of Ms. Marta Szigeti Bonifert, Executive Director, Regional Environmental Center for Central and Eastern Europe (REC) | |
Ms. Elena Vasilyeva, Director, Information Centre “Volgrad-Ecopress”, Russian Federation | |
Mr. Achim Halpaap, Chair of the International PRTR Coordinating Group and Associate Director of the Training Department of the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) | |
Mr. Michel Amand, Chair of the Meeting of the Parties to the PRTR Protocol, intervened in his capacity as Chair of the OECD Task Force on PRTRs | |
Ms. Vera Barrantes, UNITAR, on behalf of Mr. Roberto Rodriguez-Rojas, Executive Secretary of the Central American Commission for Environment and Development | |
Ms. Lesley Onyon, Senior Programme Officer, UNEP-SAICM Secretariat |
This section lists other documents relevant to MOPP-1.
Document Title | ENG |
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Overview of ongoing and planned capacity-building activities concerning pollutant release and transfer registers | |
Software promoting PRTRs successfully tested in Kazakhstan | |
Information tools designed to foster capacity-building and awareness-raising with regard to the Protocol, including prtr.net and the Aarhus clearinghouse mechanism | |
Progress made with the UNECE project concerning a cost model for the establishment of pollutant release and transfer registers in accordance with the requirements of the Protocol | |
UNEP: relation of MEAs and PRTR Protocol | |
PRTR activities under the OECD umbrella |
In the table above, links to documents appear using the following abbreviations and icons:
File formats: 
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Languages: ENG – English; FRE – French; RUS – Russian
Documents available for downloading are indicated in blue typeface: ENG FRE RUS
