Introduction
Capacity-building activities and donor invitation
Content of the Protocol
Documents and meetings
International PRTR Coordinating Group
Side events and workshops
Text of the Protocol
Working Group on PRTRs
Documents and meetings
Foundational documents
Fifth meeting of the Working Group of the Protocol (Geneva, 22-24 October 2007)
Title |
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French |
Russian |
| Provisional Agenda (ECE/MP.PP/AC.1/2007/3) |
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Revised Indicative Time Table to the Provisional Agenda
Note: This supercedes the time table appearing in section III.
of ECE/MP.PP/AC.1/2007/3 above. |
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Report of the meeting (ECE/MP.PP/AC.1/2007/4) |
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Report of the meeting corrigendum - English only (ECE/MP.PP/AC.1/2007/4/corr.1) |
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Draft decision on rules of procedure (ECE/MP.PP/AC.1/2007/L.9) |
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Draft decision on review of compliance (ECE/MP.PP/AC.1/2007/L.10) |
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Draft decision on financial arrangements (ECE/MP.PP/AC.1/2007/L.11) |
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Draft decision on the preparation, adoption and monitoring of work programmes (ECE/MP.PP/AC.1/2007/L.12)
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Draft decision on reporting requirements
(ECE/MP.PP/AC.1/2007/L.13) |
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Draft decision on establishment of the Working Group of the Parties
(ECE/MP.PP/AC.1/2007/L.14) |
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Guidance document* |
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List of Participants |
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*as edited and submitted for layout and graphic design. Selected graphs appear in the table "Review of the draft guidance document" below.
Fourth meeting of the contact group on a compliance review mechanism and rules of procedure (18-19 June 2007, Geneva, Switzerland)
Title |
English |
French |
Russian |
| Report of the fourth meeting of the Working Group (ECE/MP.PP/AC.1/2007/2) |
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| Draft decision on review of compliance (as prepared by the Contact Group at its meeting held in parallel with the fourth session of the Working Group on PRTR (14-16 February 2007)
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| Draft decision on the rules of procedure (ECE/MP.PP/AC.1/2007/L.1) |
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| Text of a 'package' proposal put forward by two members of the Contact Group for further consideration |
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| Comments by European Community |
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| Comments by European ECO Forum |
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| Comments by Norway |
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| Comments by Switzerland |
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| Registration form |
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Fourth meeting of the Working Group of the Protocol (Geneva, 14-16 February 2007)
** Informal translation provided by the secretariat.
Informal documents
Title |
English |
| Chair of the Meeting of the Parties' letter re: entry into force of the Protocol |
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| ENVSEC concept proposal: Building Capacity for Environmental Monitoring and Reporting by Enterprises and Public Authorities in EECCA and SEE countries |
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| Italy's submission on subsidiary bodies |
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European Union submission on issues of subsidiary bodies (Finland's EU Presidency) |
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| Report of the first meeting of the International PRTR Coordinating Group (held 20 March 2006 in Ghent, Belgium) |
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| Donor Invitation for PRTR Framework Programme on Capacity Building (revised 5 February 2007) |
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Guidance document
Review of the draft guidance document
Newly contained in the revised final version are (1) a revised table of
contents including a complete list of boxes, figures and tables appearing in
the guidance, (2) revision of figures related to reporting requirements for
off-site transfers, and (3) the revised annex III on analytical procedures.
The 23 February 2007 version was open for comment until 6 March
2007.
Title |
English |
Russian |
| Guidance to implementation of the Protocol on PRTRs (revised FINAL DRAFT for editing - 23 February 2007) |
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| Guidance to implementation of the Protocol on PRTRs (revised FINAL DRAFT for editing in track changes format - 21 February 2007) |
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| Figure IV of chapter IV - "Two-track" approach (revised) |
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| Figure I of chapter V - Flows of PRTR data (revised) |
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| Box 6 of chapter V - Example of national reporting timetable |
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| Figure IV of chapter V - Reporting cycle 1 (revised) |
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| Figure V of chapter V - Reporting cycle 2 (revised) |
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| Box 1 of chapter VI - EPER website |
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| Reporting requirements for off-site transfers (figures I, II and III replacing figures on page 31 of penultimate draft) - powerpoint |
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| Spanish response to Vice-chair's proposal to the penultimate draft guidance |
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| Vice-chair's proposal concerning Spain's proposed amendments to the penultimate draft guidance |
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| Spanish comments to 31 July 2006 penultimate draft guidance |
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| German comments to 31 July 2006 penultimate draft guidance |
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| European Commission comments to 31 July 2006 penultimate draft guidance |
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| Draft guidance to implementation of the Protocol on PRTR (revised 31.07.06) - "Penultimate version" in track changes mode |
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| Revisions made or suggested by the Working Group to the draft guidance (revised 13.05.06 version) |
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| Draft Guidance on implementation of the Protocol on PRTR (revised 13.05.06 version) |
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| Additional German comments to 13 May 2006 draft guidance |
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| Additional UK comments to 13 May 2006 draft guidance |
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| Additional European Commission comments to 13 May 2006 draft guidance |
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*The Guidance Review Group agreed on revisions to the draft final version of the guidance at its meeting on 15 February 2007. The revised
version incorporates these edits and additional comments received from the Review Group as of 23 February 2007.
Intersessional meeting of the Contact Group (Geneva,
13-15 Sept 2006)
| Draft decision on review of compliance (ECE/MP.PP/AC.1/2006/4) |
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| EU Submission on Draft decision on Review of compliance (ECE/MP.PP/AC.1/2006/3) dated 29 June 2006 (English only) |
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Third meeting of the Working Group of the
Protocol
(Geneva, 17-19 May 2006)
| Provisional
Agenda (ECE/MP.PP/AC.1/2006/1) |
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| Report of the
meeting (ECE/MP.PP/AC.1/2006/2) |
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| List of Participants |
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| Explanatory
note on complaince mechanism and rules of procedure
draft decisions (ECE/MP.PP/AC.1/2006/5) |
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| Draft decision
on review of compliance (ECE/MP.PP/AC.1/2006/4) |
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| Draft decision
on rules of procedure (ECE/MP.PP/AC.1/2006/3) |
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| Options for
financial arrangements (ECE/MP.PP/AC.1/2006/6) |
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| Analysis of
subsidiary bodies (ECE/MP.PP/AC.1/2006/7) |
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Informal
documents of the third meeting
| Comments
on the Compliance Review Mechanism submitted
by Norway |
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| Comments on
the Rules of Procedure and Compliance Review
Mechanism submitted by the United Kingdom |
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| EU Submission
on a Compliance Mechanism |
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| EU Submission
on Rules of Procedure |
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| Comments on
the Compliance Review Mechanism and Rules of
Procedure submitted by Regional Environmental
Center |
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| Submission
on a Compliance Mechanism by European ECOFORUM |
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| Submission
on Rules of Procedure by European ECOFORUM |
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| Working Group
of the Parties statement on compliance mechanism
and rules of procedure |
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| Letter from the Chairperson of the Compliance Committee to the Chairperson of the Working Group on PRTR re: compliance mechanism |
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| Capacity-building
framework proposal - Invitation to donors |
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| Capacity-building
activities matrix (revised post-session 19.07.06) |
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| Cover letter
to implementation proposal submitted by State
Committee for Environmental Protection and Forestry
of the Republic of Tajikistan (dated 03.04.06) |
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| Proposal "Programme
for Implementation of the Protocol on PRTRs
in Tajikistan and Central Asia" submitted
by State Committee for Environmental Protection
and Forestry of the Republic of Tajikistan |
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| Summary of the proposal "For a PRTR in Mexico" (in English only) from the revised full proposal "Por un RETC para Mexico" (in Spanish - ) |
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| Proposal "Building public capacity in EECCA countries ... " submitted by
“Greenwomen” (Kazakhstan) and
“Eco-Accord” Sustainable Development Center (Russia) |
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| "What's in Aarhus' Backyard?" - presentation on backyard information systems and their application to the Convention and Protocol by EMLA on behalf of UNEP/GRID-Arendal |
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| Draft Guidance
on implementation of the Protocol on PRTR ("Beta"
version - revised 13.05.06) |
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Second meeting of the Working Group of the
Protocol
(Geneva, 13 – 15 April 2005)
Informal
documents of the second meeting
| Capacity-building
matrix (revised April 2005) |
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| Needs
of the Republic of Armenia for implementation
of the Protocol on PRTRs |
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| ECO
Forum / Environmental NGO statement |
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| NGO
comment on capacity-building guidance text |
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First meeting of the Working Group
of the Protocol
(Geneva, 16 – 18 February 2004)
Title |
English |
French |
Russian |
| Provisional
Agenda (MP.PP/AC.1/2004/1) |
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| Report of the
meeting (MP.PP/AC.1/2004/2) |
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| List of Participants |
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Informal documents of the first meeting
| Needs and prospects for capacity building, technical support and information exchange in PRTR development (revised 22 March 2004) |
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Documents
of the Working Group for the preparation of
the
Protocol
Title |
English |
French |
Russian |
| Draft
protocol on pollutant release and transfer registers
(MP.PP/2003/1) |
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| Final
draft of resolution of Signatories (MP.PP/2003/CRP.1)
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| Elements
for a draft resolution on pollutant release
and transfer registers (MP.PP/AC.1/2003/3) |
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| Report
of the second meeting (MP.PP/AC.1/2003/2) |
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| List
of participants at the second meeting |
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| Provisional
agenda for the second meeting (MP.PP/AC.1/2003/1) |
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| Draft
Protocol on Pollutant Release and Transfer Registers
- Revised consolidated text (MP.PP/AC.1/2002/3)
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| Report
of the first meeting (MP.PP/AC.1/2002/2) |
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| List
of participants at the first meeting |
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| Provisional
agenda for the meeting (MP.PP/AC.1/2002/1) |
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| Analysis
of the legal, administrative, institutional,
practical and financial implications of the
protocol being open to States and regional economic
integration organizations whether or not they
are Parties to the Aarhus Convention (CEP/WG.5/AC.2/2002/12)
(advance copy) |
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| Draft
Protocol on Pollutant Release and Transfer Registers
- Consolidated text CEP/WG.5/AC.2/2002/11) |
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| Draft
Protocol on Pollutant Release and Transfer Registers
- Consolidated text CEP/WG.5/AC.2/2002/10) |
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| Report
on the sixth meeting (CEP/WG.5/AC.2/2002/9)
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| Provisional
agenda for the sixth meeting (CEP/WG.5/AC.2/2002/8)
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| Report
on the fifth meeting (CEP/WG.5/AC.2/2002/6)
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| List
of participants of the fifth meeting of the
Working Group |
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| Provisional
agenda for the fifth meeting (CEP/WG.5/AC.2/2002/5)
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| Draft
protocol on PRTRs: Scope of register, reporting
requirements, reporting cycle, monitoring and
record-keeping, and quality assessment (CEP/WG.5/AC.2/2002/7)
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| List
of participants of the forth meeting of the
Working Group and the second meeting of the
technical group |
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| Provisional
agenda for the fourth meeting (CEP/WG.5/AC.2/2002/1) |
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| Report
on the fourth meeting (CEP/WG.5/AC.2/2002/2)
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Analysis
of Costs and Benefits of Pollutant Release and
Transfer Registers
(CEP/WG.5/AC.2/2002/4) |
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Draft
Protocol on PRTRs: Objective, definitions, general
provisions, core elements etc.
(CEP.WG.5/AC.2/2002/3) |
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| Report
of the third meeting of the Working Group (CEP/WG.5/AC.2/2001/9) |
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| Provisional
agenda for the third meeting (CEP/WG.5/AC.2/2001/8) |
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| Draft
Analysis of Costs and Benefits of Pollutant
Release and Transfer Registers (CEP/WG.5/AC.2/2001/10)(English
only) |
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| List
of participants of the 2nd meeting of the working
group and the 1st meeting of the technical group
(English only) |
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| Report
on the second meeting of the working group (CEP/WG.5/AC.2/2001/5) |
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| Elements
for final provisions of a draft instrument on
pollutant release and transfer registers (PRTR)
(CEP/WG.5/AC.2/2001/6) |
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| Elements
for a draft instrument on pollutant release
and transfer registers relating to substances,
activities |