Background Informal Technical Document for the Review of the Gothenburg Protocol for Industrial Processes

Decision 2019/4, taken by the Executive Body in December 2019, established the scope and content of the review of the Amended Gothenburg Protocol. The Group for the Review of the Gothenburg Protocol (GPG) developed the document “Preparations for the review of the Protocol to Abate Acidification, Eutrophication, and Ground-level ozone, as amended in 2012 (2020/3) (AGP)”, adopted in December 2020. Annex I of this document contains a list of questions concerning all the aspects to be considered during the review process. In particular, the questions in section 1.6 relate to the Technical Annexes (TAs) of the AGP.

To answer the questions in section 1.6, the TFTEI carried out an in-depth review of the TAs in 2021: IV - Limit values for emissions of sulphur from stationary sources, V - Limit values for emissions of nitrogen oxides from stationary sources; VI - Limit values for emissions of volatile organic compounds from stationary sources; X - Limit values for emissions of particulate matter from stationary sources and XI - Limit values for volatile organic compounds content of products. The main conclusions of this review work were included in the GPG “Draft report on the review of the Protocol to Abate Acidification, Eutrophication and Ground-level Ozone, as amended in 2012” (ECE/EB.AIR/WG.5/2022/3) and in the report by the Co-Chairs of the Task Force on Techno-economic Issues (ECE/EB.AIR/WG.5/2022/1), both official documents for the WGSR at its sixtieth session in 2022.