Download hereinafter - the Kyoto Protocol

The Saeima1 has adopted and
the President has proclaimed the following Law:
On the Doha Amendment to the Kyoto Protocol of the United Nations
Framework Convention on Climate Change
Section 1.
Latvia, being a contracting party to the Kyoto Protocol referred to in Article 4 of the
Kyoto Protocol of the United nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (hereinafter
- the Kyoto Protocol) in accordance with Article 2 of Council Decision (EU) 2015/1339 of 13
July 2015 on the conclusion, on behalf of the European Union, of the Doha Amendment to the
Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the joint
fulfilment of commitments thereunder (hereinafter - Council Decision No 2015/1339), shall
undertake to fulfil the commitments provided for in the Doha Amendment to the Kyoto Protocol
(hereinafter - the Doha Amendment) jointly with other Member States of the European Union
and Iceland in accordance with the conditions referred to in Annex 1 to Council Decision No
2015/1339, by ensuring that in 2020 aggregate carbon dioxide equivalent emissions of the
greenhouse gases listed in Annex A to the Kyoto protocol do not exceed 80 percent of the total
aggregate carbon dioxide equivalent emissions of the greenhouse gases of the European Union,
its member States and Iceland of 1990, that is laid down in accordance with the Doha
Amendment and Council Decision No 2015/1339.
Section 2.
The Doha Amendment is adopted and approved by this Law.
Section 3.
The fulfilment of the commitments provided for in the Doha Amendment shall be
coordinated by the Ministry of Environmental Protection and Regional Development.
Section 4.
The Doha Amendment shall come into force on the time and in accordance with the
procedures laid down in Article 2 thereof, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs shall notify
thereon in the official gazetteLatvijas Vēstnesis [the official Gazette of the Government of
Latvia].
Section 5.
The Law shall come into force from the day of proclamation thereof. The Doha
Amendment shall be proclaimed in English with their translation into Latvian concurrently with
the Law.
This Law was adopted by the Saeima on 1 October 2015.
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The Parliament of the Republic of Latvia
Translation © 2016 Valsts valodas centrs (State Language Centre)
Acting for the President, the Chairperson of the Saeima
I.Mūrniece
Riga, 14 October 2015
Translation © 2016 Valsts valodas centrs (State Language Centre)
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