Venue

Scottish Executive
Victoria Quay
Edinburgh, UK
4-6 December 2006

Organisation

The workshop is organized and sponsored by CEH, Defra, SEERAD, COST729 and the NitroEurope IP

Draft Agenda

Expected Workshop Output

The workshop is expected to provide conclusions and draft recommendations in relation to the different objectives:

1. Draft recommendations on the effectiveness of ammonia abatement approaches for consideration by the Expert Group on Ammonia Abatement and the Working Group on Strategies & Review;
2. Draft recommendations on future monitoring and modelling needs for consideration by the Task Force on Measurements and Modelling and the EMEP Steering Body;
3. Draft recommendations on approaches for emission inventories and their validation for consideration by the Task Force on Emission Inventories and Projections and the EMEP Steering body;
4. Draft recommendations on ammonia critical thresholds and other critical thresholds (e.g., for different receptors and different effects) and their relationship to existing critical nitrogen loads for consideration by Task Force of the ICP on Mapping and Modelling and the the Working Group on Effects.

The organizers will prepare a short note, in co-operation with the secretariat, on the conclusions and draft recommendations for submission to the relevant subsidiary bodies under the Convention.

Documentation

In advance of the workshop, the organizers will provide a report summarizing the issues and invite leading experts to prepare background documents on the state of scientific understanding for the four main themes of the workshop. Together with supporting poster presentations and reports, these will allow the drafting of parallel working group reports during the workshop. This information will provide the basis for the conclusions and draft recommendations, which will be transmitted to the Expert Group on Ammonia Abatement at its 8th meeting and thereafter to the Working Group on Strategies and Review at its 39th session in September 2007. The conclusions and recommendations will also be presented to the Task Force on Measurements and Modelling, the EMEP Steering Body and the Working Group on Effects.

Publication

It is planned that the results of the workshop will be published during 2007 as an ISBN book which will include:

• Workshop conclusions and Recommendations
• Working Group Reports
• Background Documents (including revisions following the meeting)
• Reports and other short papers of posters presented at the workshop
• Programme and coordinates of attendees.

Final edited material for inclusion in the workshop volume will need to be supplied to the organizers by 15 February 2007.