European Community ratifies PRTR

Protocol on Pollutant Release and Transfer Registers on the way to complete ratification.

22.03.2006 |Anke Stock

On 3 March 2006 the European Community ratified the Aarhus Convention’s Protocol on Pollutant Release and Transfer Registers. Apart from the European Community only Luxembourg has so far ratified the PRTR.

The Protocol will enter into force on the ninetieth day after the date of deposit of the sixteenth instrument of ratification by a member State of the United Nations. Ratification of the Protocol by the European Community is additional to, and distinct from, ratification by its member States.

For more information go to the Aarhus project page.