Convention on Environmental Impact Assessment in a Transboundary Context

• Coming into Force: 10 September 1997
• Subject Terms: Pollution,Environment,Espoo Convention (environmental impact assessment),Frontiers
• Date of Conclusion: 25 February 1991
• Registration Date: 10 September 1997
• Citation: UNTS v. 1989 (p.309)
• Registration Number: 34028
• Type of Document: Multilateral
• Depositary: Secretary-General of the United Nations
• Participants: Albania,Armenia,Austria,Azerbaiján,Bielorrusia,Bélgica,Bosnia & Herzegovina,Bulgaria,Canada,Croacia,Cyprus,Czech Republic,Czechoslovakia,Dinamarca,Estonia,European Community,Finlandia,France,Germany,Greece,Hungria,Islandia,Ireland,Italia,Kazakhstan,Kyrgyzstan,Latvia,Liechtenstein,Lithuania,Luxembourg,Malta,Montenegro,Holanda,Noruega,Polonia,Portugal,Republic of Moldova,Rumania,Russian Federation,Serbia,Eslovaquia,Eslovenia,España,Suecia,Suiza,The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia,Ukraine,United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland,United States
• Party Submitting the Application for Registration: ex officio

No.|34028

MULTILATERAL

Convention on environmental impact assessment in a

transboundary context (with appendices). Concluded at

Espoo (Finland) on 25 February 1991

Authentic texts: English, French and Russian.

Registered ex officio on 10 September 1997.

MULTILATÉRAL

Convention sur l’évaluation de l’impact sur l’environnement

dans un contexte transfrontière (avec annexes). Conclue

à Espoo (Finlande) le 25 février 1991

Textes authentiques|: anglais, français et russe.

Enregistrée d’office le 10 septembre 1997.

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CONVENTION1ON ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT IN

A TRANSBOUNDARY CONTEXT

1|Came into force on 10 September 1997, in accordance with article 18:

Date of deposit

of the instrument

of ratification,

acceptance (A),

approval (AA)

Participant oraccession (a)

Albania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 October 1991

Armenia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21February 1997 a

Austria. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . 27 July 1994

Bulgaria. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 May 1995

Croatia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . 8 July 1996 a

Denmark . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14March 1997 AA

Finland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 August 1995 A

Italy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19January 1995

Luxembourg. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 August 1995

Netherland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 February 1995 A

Norway. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 June 1993

Poland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 June 1997

Republic of Moldova . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 January 1994 a

Spain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 September 1992

Sweden . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 January 1992

Switzerland. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 September 1996 a

In addition, and prior to the entry into force of the Convention, the following Organization also

deposited an instrument of approval:

24 June 1997

European Community

(With effect from 22 September 1997). With declarationson p. 379 of this volume.

2|United Nations, Official Recordsof the General Assembly, Forty-eighth Session (A/CONF.48/14/Rev.1).

3|International Legal Materials,vol. XIV (1975), p. 1292 (American Society of International Law).

4|Ibid., vol. XXII (1983), p. 1395 (American Society of International Law).

5|Ibid., vol. XXVIII (1989), p. 527 (American Society of InternationalLaw).

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