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A. AIR

A.1. Maintaining Air Quality

The Ministry of Environment, Urbanization and Climate Change (MoEUCC) carries out the acti-
vities within the scope of the “Long-Term Financing of the Cooperation Programme for Moni-
toring and Assessment of Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution in Europe - EMEP Protocol”
of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UN-ECE) “Convention on Long-Range
Transboundary Air Pollution (CLRTAP)” to which we are a party. The Convention entered into
force on 13/11/1979 and Türkiye became a party to the Convention on 18.04.1983.

With the “EMEP Protocol”, to which Türkiye became a party on 20/12/1985, it is aimed to collect
air pollutant emission inventories of all party countries, to model the inventory data for the
EMEP region and to verify the model results with air quality measurements at long-range sta-
tions.

Within the scope of EMEP Protocol, annual air pollutant emission inventory reporting has been
carried out by the MoEUCC as of 2012. Emission totals for selected air pollutants (PM10, PM2.5,
NOx, SO , NMVOC, NH , CO, selected heavy metals) are calculated in kilotonnes (ktonnes) under
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the guidelines prepared by EMEP/European Environment Agency (EEA). This reporting is pro-
cessed as official statistics on behalf of the MoEUCC within the Official Statistics Programme of
TURKSTAT.

Access information for reporting on the web page of the MoEUCC is available at https://cygm.
csb.gov.tr/hava-yonetimi- department-baskanligi-i-i-85473. Informative Inventory Report ba-
sed on the inventory is reported together with the national air pollutant emission inventory. The
files within the scope of reporting are registered in the EEU EIONET (European Environmental
Information and Observation Network) database together with the UN Convention secretari-
at. Since 2016, the emission calculations for indirect greenhouse gases—classified among the
air pollutants reported by the Ministry of Environment and Urbanization—have been used in
the greenhouse gas reporting coordinated by TÜİK in compliance with the United Nations Fra-
mework Convention on Climate Change.

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