The EMEP programme provides scientific support
to the Convention on:
- Atmospheric monitoring and modelling;
- Emission inventories and emission projections;
- Integrated assessment modelling.
The EMEP Steering Body meets annually and reports
to the Executive Body on its activities. Four programme
centres (the Chemical Coordinating Centre, the Meteorological
Synthesizing Centre-West, the Meteorological Synthesizing
Centre-East and the Centre for Integrated Assessment
Modelling) and three task forces coordinate the
work of EMEP and provide reports to its Steering
Body.
The Bureau of the Steering Body, elected by the
Steering Body each year, meets with the representatives
of the task forces and programme centres to make
strategic proposals regarding the work-plan and
budget for EMEP. The Bureau also meets annually
with the Bureau of the Working Group on Effects
to harmonize their work-plans and coordinate their
activities.
The last Joint Bureaux meeting of EMEP and the Working Group
on Effects was held on 2 March 2006 in Geneva.
Financing
The EMEP schedule
of contributions for 2007 was approved by the Executive Body
at its twenty-fourth session. Parties were requested to pay their
contributions in the first half of the year.