Council Decision (EU) 2024/3124 of 5 December 2024 authorising the Commission to negotiate, on behalf of the European Union, the revision of the 1999 Protocol to the 1979 Convention on Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution to Abate Acidification, Eutrophication and Ground-Level Ozone

The Commission is hereby authorised to negotiate, on behalf of the Union, as regards matters falling within the Union’s competence, the revision of the 1999 Protocol to the 1979 Convention on Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution to Abate Acidification, Eutrophication and Ground-Level Ozone (the ‘Gothenburg Protocol’).

The negotiations shall be conducted on the basis of the negotiating directives of the Council set out in the addendum to this Decision.

The negotiations shall be conducted in consultation with the Council Working Party on International Environment Issues, which is hereby designated as the special committee within the meaning of Article 218(4) of the Treaty. The Commission and the Member States shall cooperate closely during the negotiating process, with a view to ensuring unity in the international representation of the Union.

The Council may review the content of the negotiating directives in the event of relevant developments in 2025 and 2026, in particular if the ambition level in the negotiations goes beyond relevant Union law, and in any case after the 46th session of the Executive Body referred to in Article 10 of the Convention, if the revision of the Gothenburg Protocol has not been concluded by the end of that 46th session.

This Decision is addressed to the Commission.