History
The Agreement was concluded as “Agreement on the Conservation of Bats in Europe” in September 1991 during the Third Meeting of the Parties of the Convention on Migratory Species. It entered into force on 16 January 1994, after the required number of five states (Germany, The Netherlands, Norway, Sweden and UK) had ratified it.
In 2000, the Parties decided to change the Agreement’s name into its current form “Agreement on the Conservation of Populations of European Bats”. In 2001, the Agreement became part of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).
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