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Welcome to TFMM meeting on behalf of the Swiss Federal Office for the Environment

Welcome to the TFMM meeting on behalf of the Swiss Federal Office for the Environment. Updates from the Working Group on Strategies and Review (WGSR) on the Heavy Metals Protocol, Gothenburg Protocol, and GP. Support from TFMM is needed.

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Welcome to TFMM meeting on behalf of the Swiss Federal Office for the Environment

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  1. Air Pollution Control and NIR Division Welcome to TFMM meeting on behalf of the Swiss Federal Office for the Environment Richard Ballaman Head of Air Quality Management Section; Chairman of Working Group on Strategies and Review (WGSR)

  2. News from the WGSR on Heavy Metals Protocol • Continued negociations with a view to presenting amendments to the Parties to the Protocol at the 30th session of the EB in December 2012; • to update the abatement measures of dust containing HMs in line with similar measures in GP; • to include mandatory measures on mercury containing products; • to look for possibilities for facilitating ratifications of the Protocol by EECCA countries.

  3. Support from TFMM is needed • The HMs Protocol is technically driven, i.e. application of emission limit values based on BAT; • No national ceilings but emission reduction versus a reference year. • The reliability of emission inventories is crucial; and • The modelling and monitoring could help to assess the real emission reductions.

  4. News from the WGSR on the Gothenburg Protocol (1) • Continued negociations on options for revising the 1999 Gothenburg Protocol to Abate Acidification, Eutrophication and Ground-level Ozone and its technical annexes • With a view to presenting amendments proposals to the Parties to the Protocol meeting at the 29th session of the EB in December 2011. • The negotiations will continue and should be finalised at the WGSR 49 from 12 to 16 September 2011.

  5. News from the WGSR on GP (2) • New technical annex on dust / TSP emissions limit values from stationary sources • Discuss options for including provisions on BC, as a component of PM; • TFIAM and CIAM delivered integrated scenarios for 2020, covering abatement measures for SO2, NOx, NH3, NMVOC and PM2.5 with 5 different ambition levels between 25 and 75% gap closure; • For the time being the WGSR did not adopt any preferred ambition level nor proposal for a draft annex II with national emission ceilings.

  6. Implication of the report of the ad hoc EG on BC In its decision 2010/2 §8, the EB requests other Convention bodies: (a) In particular the EMEP SB should direct in the short or medium term: • (i) The TFEIP to work on guidelines for BC inventories with a view to making it possible to begin voluntary national reporting of BC emissions in the near future; • (ii) the TFMM to identify the relevant characteristics of BC to be measured, monitored and reported, to be included in the EMEP monitoring strategy 2010–2019; • (iii) the TFHTAP and the TFMM to ensure inclusion of BC in the regional and hemispheric atmospheric transport modelling work; …

  7. Implication of the report of the TFHTAP In its Decision 2010/2 §10, the Executive Body: • Acknowledged the importance of CH4 and CO as precursors of O3 that were currently not addressed by GP. • Requests subsidiary bodies to the Convention to examine over the longer term the regional impacts of reducing the levels of tropospheric O3 and its precursors, including CH4 and CO … ensuring there is no duplication of existing efforts, such as under UNFCCC and the Global Methane Initiative.

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