§ Lord Melchettasked Her Majesty's Government:
Whether they will list those countries which signed the 30 per cent. protocol on reducing sulphur emissions, at the third session of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe Convention on Long Range Transport of Air Pollutants in Helsinki this year.
§ The Minister of State, Department of the Environment (Lord Elton)The countries are: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Byelorussian SSR, Canada, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Finland, France, German Democratic Republic, Federal Republic of Germany, Hungary, Italy, Leichtenstein, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukrainian SSR, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.