Potential measures for reduction of releases of heavy metals, POPs, HCFCs, BRFs and industrial greenhouse gases with particular reference to Russia, Ukraine and China

Potential measures for reduction of releases of heavy metals, POPs, HCFCs, BFRs and industrial greenhouse gases with particular reference to Russia, Ukraine and China

3 International agreements overview

Table 3-1 below presents an overview of which substances are covered in rele-vant international agreements. Further summary aspects are presented in the individual substance sections. In addition, a brief summary description of the objectives, scopes, and addressed substances of some of the included agreements is given in Appendix 1.

Table 3-1 International agreements overview

	Stock- holm Conven- tion	Vienna Conven- tion Montreal Protocol *3	UNFCCC Kyoto Protocol	CLRTAP HM protocol	CLRTAP POPs protocol	HELCOM Conven- tion *1	OSPAR Conven- tion *1	Rotter- dam Conven- tion *2	UNEP Hg agree- ment
Lead				X		X	X
Mercury				X		X	X	X	X
Cadmium				X		X	X
PCDD/ PCDF	X				X	X	X
HCB	X				X	X		X
PCBs	X				X	X	X	X
POPs pesti- cides	X				X	X	partly	X
HCFC		X
HFC			X
PFC			X
SF₆			X
PBDE, PBB. HBCD						partly	X	partly
Russia, signing	22 May 2002	NDI	11. Mar 1999	-	-	NDI	not relevant	-
Russia, ratifi- cation	-	10 Nov 1988	18 Nov 2004 (R)	-	-	Nov 1999 (RID)	not relevant	-
Ukraine, signing	23 May 2001	NDI	15 Mar 1999	24 Jun 1998	24 May 1998	-	not relevant	NDI
Ukraine, ratifi- cation	-	20 Sep 1988 (At)	12 April 2004 (R)	-	-	-	not relevant	06 Dec 2002
China, signing	23 May 2001	NDI	29 May 1998	not relevant	not relevant	not relevant	not relevant	24 Aug 1999
China, ratifi- cation	13 Aug 2004	14 Jun 1991 (AC)	30 Aug 2002 (Ap)	not relevant	not relevant	not relevant	not relevant	22 Mar 2005

NDI: No data identified; R: Ratification; At: Acceptance; Ap: Approval; Ac: Accession; RID: Ratification instruments deposited

*1 Substances on the OSPAR List of Chemicals for Priority Action and the HELCOM list of Selected Substances for Immediate Priority Action are indicated.

*2 Substances subject to the Prior Informed Consent procedure are indicated

*3 While all three countries have joined the Montreal Protocol, their ratification of the amendments to the Protocol ruling HCFC is lacking behind. Russia has currently not ratified any obligations as regards reductions of HCFCs, while Ukraine has ratified and China is in accession to obligations as regards consumption of HCFCs, but not to obligations on production and exports of HCFCs.