Article
1
Definitions
For the purposes of the present Protocol,
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"Convention" means the Convention on Long-range Transboundary Air Pollution, adopted in Geneva on 13 November 1979;
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"EMEP" means the Co-operative Programme for Monitoring and Evaluation of the Long-range Transmission of Air Pollutants in Europe;
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"Executive Body" means the Executive Body for the Convention constituted under article 10, paragraph 1 of the Convention;
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"Geographical scope of EMEP" means the area defined in article 1, paragraph 4 of the Protocol to the 1979 Convention on Long-range Transboundary Air Pollution on Long-term Financing of the Co-operative Programme for Monitoring and Evaluation of the Long-range Transmission of Air Pollutants in Europe (EMEP), adopted in Geneva on 28 September 1984;
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"Parties" means, unless the context otherwise requires, the Parties to the present Protocol;
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"Commission" means the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe;
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"Critical load" means a quantitative estimate of the exposure to one or more pollutants below which significant harmful effects on specified sensitive elements of the environment do not occur according to present knowledge;
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"Major existing stationary source" means any existing stationary source the thermal input of which is at least 100 MW;
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"Major new stationary source" means any hew stationary source the thermal input of which is at least 50 MW;
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"Major source category" means any category of sources which emit or may emit air pollutants in the form of nitrogen oxides, including the categories described in the Technical Annex, and which contribute at least 10 per cent of the total national emissions of nitrogen oxides on an annual basis as measured or calculated in the first calendar year after the date of entry into force of the present Protocol, and every fourth year thereafter;
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"New stationary source" means any stationary source the construction or substantial modification of which is commenced after the expiration of two years from the date of entry into force of this Protocol;
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"New mobile source" means a motor vehicle or other mobile source which is manufactured after the expiration of two years from the date of entry into force of the present Protocol.