# Council Decision (EU) 2017/1757 of 17 July 2017 on the acceptance on behalf of the European Union of an Amendment to the 1999 Protocol to the 1979 Convention on Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution to Abate Acidification, Eutrophication and Ground-Level Ozone, Division 6: A new paragraph 2 is added at the end of article 2 as follows:

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

‘2. A further objective is that Parties should, in implementing measures to achieve their national targets for particulate matter, give priority, to the extent they consider appropriate, to emission reduction measures which also significantly reduce black carbon in order to provide benefits for human health and the environment and to help mitigation of near-term climate change.’

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudn/2017/1757/annex/division/C/division/6 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2017-1757/annex/division-C/division-6
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