EMEP

The EMEP programme (Co-operative Programme for Monitoring and Evaluation of the Long-Range Transmission of Air pollutants in Europe) has been established to regularly provide Governments and subsidiary bodies under the LRTAP Convention with qualified scientific information to support the development and further evaluation of the international protocols on emission reductions negotiated within the Convention. The Aarhus Protocol on POPs was signed by 36 countries in 1979, among which, many European countries, Canada and United States of America. The POPs protocol sets out provisions for 16 persistent pollutants.

EMEP's measurement programme includes analyses of benzo(a)pyrene, PCBs (IUPAC 28 52, 101, 118, 138,153 , 180), hexachlorobenzene (HCB), chlordane (gamma and alpha), lindane, hexachlorocyclohexane (HCH), DDT/DDE in precipitation and gas particles.

EMEP home page
Chemical Co-ordinating Centre of EMEP (CCC)
EMEP manuals
EMEP documents