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Division A Article 1

Original text. Later amendments are not shown.

For paragraph 12 there shall be substituted:

‘“New stationary source” means any stationary source of which the construction or substantial modification is commenced after the expiry of 2 years from the date of entry into force for a Party of:

  1. (a)

    the present Protocol; or

  2. (b)

    an amendment to the present Protocol that, with respect to a stationary source, either introduces new limit values in Part II of Annex IV or introduces the category in Annex VIII in which that source falls.

It shall be a matter for the competent national authorities to decide whether a modification is substantial or not, taking into account such factors as the environmental benefits of the modification.’