COMMUNICATION FROM THE COMMISSION

concerning the entry into force of the Doha Amendment to the Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change

(2020/C 432/01)

The Union approved the Doha Amendment to the Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change on 13 July 2015  ( 1 ) .

According to Article 20, paragraph 4, and Article 21, paragraph 7 of the Kyoto Protocol, the amendment shall enter into force for those Parties having accepted it on the ninetieth day after the date of receipt by the Depositary of an instrument of acceptance by at least three fourths of the Parties to the Protocol. On 2 October 2020, the hundred forty fourth instrument of acceptance was deposited at the Secretary General of the United Nations acting as the Depositary of the Kyoto Protocol. Accordingly, the Doha Amendment will enter into force for the European Union on 31 December 2020.

( 1 )   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 ( OJ L 207, 4.8.2015, p. 1 ).