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First Session of the Meeting of the Parties to the PRTR Protocol (MOPP-1)

20 - 22 April 2010

Geneva Switzerland

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.

Adopted 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
Annotated agenda, ECE/MP.PRTR/2010/1	PDF	PDF	PDF
Report of the first session of the Meeting of the Parties to the Protocol on PRTR ECE/MP.PRTR/2010/2	PDF	PDF	PDF
Declaration and Decisions adopted by the Meeting of the Parties ECE/MP.PRTR/2010/2/Add.1	PDF	PDF	PDF
Seperate decisions as excerpts from the addendum to the report of the Meeting of the Parties on its first session (ECE/MP.PRTR/2010/2/Add.1):
Decision I/1 on Rules of Procedure	PDF	PDF	PDF
Decision I/2 on Review of Compliance	PDF	PDF	PDF
Decision I/3 on Financial Arrangements	PDF	PDF	PDF
Decision I/4 on the Establishment of the Working Group of the Parties to the Protocol	PDF	PDF	PDF
Decision I/5 on Reporting on Implementation of the Protocol	PDF	PDF	PDF
Decision I/6 on the Procedures for the Preparation, Adoption and Monitoring of Work Programmes and on the Work Programme for 2011–2014	PDF	PDF	PDF

Pre-Session Documents

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
Provisional agenda ECE/MP.PRTR/2010/1	PDF	PDF	PDF
Status of Signature, Ratification, Acceptance and Approval of and Accession to the Protocol on Pollutant Release and Transfer Registers ECE/MP.PRTR/2010/3	PDF	PDF	PDF
Draft Geneva Declaration ECE/MP.PRTR/2010/L.1	PDF	PDF	PDF
Draft Decision on Rules of Procedure ECE/MP.PRTR/2010/L.2	PDF	PDF	PDF
Draft Decision on Review of Compliance ECE/MP.PRTR/2010/L.3	PDF	PDF	PDF
Draft Decision on Financial Arrangements ECE/MP.PRTR/2010/L.4	PDF	PDF	PDF
Draft Decision on the Establishment of the Working Group of the Parties to the Protocol ECE/MP.PRTR/2010/L.5	PDF	PDF	PDF
Draft Decision on Reporting on Implementation of the Protocol ECE/MP.PRTR/2010/L.6	PDF	PDF	PDF
Draft Decision on the Procedures for the Preparation, Adoption and Monitoring of Work Programmes and on the Work Programme for 2011–2014 ECE/MP.PRTR/2010/L.7	PDF	PDF	PDF
Programme for High-Level Discussion	PDF

High-Level Segment

This section includes the presentations that were given during the High-level segment of MOPP-1.

Document Title	ENG
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	HTML
Mr. Jan Dusik, Chair of the Meeting of the Parties to the Aarhus Convention	PDF
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	PDF
Dr. Gérard Poffet, Vice Director of the Federal Office for the Environment, Switzerland	PDF
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	PDF
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	PDF
Ms. Mary Taylor, Friends of the Earth Europe, United Kingdom	PDF
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	PDF
Mr. Andrzej Jagusiewicz, Chief Inspector of Environmental Protection, Poland	PDF
Dr. Joachim Heidemeier, Head of Section on Emissions to Water, Federal Environment Agency, Germany	PDF
Mr. Lars Petter Bingh, Senior Adviser, Climate and Pollution Agency, Norway	PDF
Ms. Magdolna Toth Nagy, Senior Expert, on behalf of Ms. Marta Szigeti Bonifert, Executive Director, Regional Environmental Center for Central and Eastern Europe (REC)	PDF
Ms. Elena Vasilyeva, Director, Information Centre “Volgrad-Ecopress”, Russian Federation	PDF
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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)	PDF
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	PDF
Ms. Vera Barrantes, UNITAR, on behalf of Mr. Roberto Rodriguez-Rojas, Executive Secretary of the Central American Commission for Environment and Development	PDF
Ms. Lesley Onyon, Senior Programme Officer, UNEP-SAICM Secretariat	PDF