ABSTRACT
Fundamental principles Article 2 The Contracting Parties, taking due account of the facts and problems involved, are determined to protect man and his environment against air pollution and shall endeavour to limit and, as far as possible, gradually reduce and prevent air pollution, including long-range transboundary air pollution. Article 3 The Contracting Parties, within the framework or the present Convention, shall by means of exchanges of information, consultation, research and monitoring, develop without undue delay policies and strategies which shall serve as a means of combating the discharge of air pollutants, taking into account efforts already made at national and international levels. Article 4 The Contracting Parties shall exchange information on and review their policies, scientific activities and technical measures which may have adverse effects,
transboundary air pollution. Article 5 Consultations shall be held, upon request, at an early stage between, on the one hand, Contracting Parties which are actually affected by or exposed to a significant risk of long-range transboundary air pollution and, on the other hand, Contracting Parties within which and subject to whose jurisdiction a significant contribution to long-range transboundary air pollution originates, in connection with activities carried on or contemplated therein. Air quality management Article 6 Taking into account Articles 2-5, the ongoing research, exchange of information and monitoring and the results therefor, the cost and effectiveness of local and other remedies and, in order to combat air pollution, in particular that originating from new or rebuilt installations, each Contracting Party undertakes to develop the best policies and strategies including air quality management systems and, as part of them, control measures compatible with balanced development, in particular by using the best available technology which is economically feasible and low-and non-waste technology. Research and development Article 7 The Contracting Parties, as appropriate to their needs, shall initiate and cooperate in the conduct of research into and/or development of: (a) existing and proposed technologies for reducing emissions of sulphur
compounds and other major air pollutants, including technical and economic feasibility, and environmental consequences;
(b) instrumentation and other techniques for monitoring and measuring emission rates and ambient concentrations of air pollutants;
(c) improved models for a better understanding of the transmission of longrange transboundary air pollutants;
(d) the effects of sulphur compounds and other major air pollutants on human health and the environment, including agriculture, forestry, materials, aquatic and other natural ecosystems and visibility, with a view to establishing a scientific basis for dose/effect relationships designed to protect the environment;
(e) the economic, social and environmental assessment of alternative measures for attaining environmental objectives including the reduction of long-range transboundary air pollution;
(f) education and training programmes related to the environmental aspects of pollution by sulphur compounds and other major air pollutants.
