Long-range transboundary air pollution: sulphur emissions. Protocol to the 1979 EEC-UN Convention

OBJECTIVE: conclusion by the European Community of the Protocol to the 1979 UN/ECE Convention on long-range transboundary air pollution on further reductions of sulphur emissions. COMMUNITY MEASURE: Council Decision 98/686/EC. CONTENTS: the Protocol to the 1979 Convention on long-range transboundary air pollution on further reductions of sulphur emissions, signed on 14 June 1994, was approved on behalf of the Community. It should be noted that the European Community stated that the ceiling for emissions and the weighted average percentage of the European Community ought not to exceed the total obligations of the Member States of the European Union which have ratified the Protocol and stressed that all its Member States must reduce their SO2 emissions in accordance with the emission ceilings set in Annex II to the Protocol and in line with the relevant Community legislation.�