The Expert Group on Ammonia Abatement promotes the
use of the Framework
Advisory Code of Good Agricultural Practice for Reducing
Ammonia Emissions, which is to be used as a basis
for Parties to draw up national codes and to quantify
relationships between recommended control options/techniques
and resulting ammonia emissions. The Group works in
collaboration with EMEP, in particular an expert panel
on agricultural and nature of the Task Force on Emissions
Inventories and Projections and the Expert Group on
Techno-economic Issues. In recent years, the Expert
Group on Ammonia Abatement has focused on strengthening
links with countries with economies in transition
to encourage their participation in meetings and workshops.
It has also developed links with the Task Force on
Measurements and Modelling.
The Expert Group seeks to improve the quality of
ammonia emission inventories, comparing national inventories,
projections and abatement strategies. It considers
review of, and possible revisions to, the Guidance
Document on Control Techniques for Preventing and
Abating Emissions of Ammonia (EB.AIR/1999/2,
chap. V).
The Expert Group also seeks to address monitoring
and modelling questions such as the link between ammonia
emission control and the concentrations and deposition
of reduced nitrogen compounds.