
Multilateral Agreements at the Global and Regional Levels
Multilateral Agreements at the Global Level

Convention on Wetlands of International Importance especially as Waterfowl Habitat (Ramsar, February 1971)
23 kB

Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety to the Convention on Biological Diversity (Montreal, January 2000)
316 kB

Nagoya Protocol on Access to Genetic Resources and the Fair and Equitable Sharing of Benefits Arising from their Utilization to the Convention on Biological Diversity (Nagoya, October 2010)
491 kB

UN Convention to Combat Desertification in those countries experiencing serious drought and/or desertification, particularly in Africa (Paris, 1994)
124 kB

Convention on the Law of the Non-Navigational Uses of International Watercourses (New York, 1997)
181 kB

Convention and Statute on the Regime of Navigable Waterways of International Concern (Barcelona, April 1921)
55 kB

Convention relating to the Development of Hydraulic Power affecting more than one State (Geneva, December 1923)
55 kB
UNECE Agreements

Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation in Decision-Making and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters (Aarhus, June 1998)
51 kB

Convention on Environmental Impact Assessment in a Transboundary Context (Espoo, February 1991)
149 kB

Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes (Helsinki, March 1992)
56 kB

Amendment to the Convention Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes (2004)
10 kB

Protocol on Water and Health to the 1992 Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes (London, June 1999)
50 kB

Protocol on Civil Liability and Compensation for Damage Caused by the Transboundary Effects of Industrial Accidents on Transboundary Waters to the 1992 Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes and to the 1992 Convention on the Transboundary Effects of Industrial Accidents (Kiev, 2003)
331 kB

The 1999 Protocol to Abate Acidification, Eutrophication and Ground-level Ozone and its 2012 amended version
1,08 MB

The 1991 Protocol concerning the Control of Emissions of Volatile Organic Compounds or their Transboundary Fluxes
356 kB

The 1985 Protocol on the Reduction of Sulphur Emissions or their Transboundary Fluxes by at least 30 per cent
22 kB

The 1984 Protocol on Long-term Financing of the Cooperative Programme for Monitoring and Evaluation of the Long-range Transmission of Air Pollutants in Europe (EMEP)
120 kB