Extract from First Extraordinary Meeting of the Parties to the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer
(UNEP/OzL.Pro.ExMP/1/3)

Decision Ex.I/4(3): National Management Strategy for Phase-out of Critical Uses of Methyl Bromide

“3.        To request each Party which makes a critical-use nomination after 2005 to submit a national management strategy for phase-out of critical uses of methyl bromide to the Ozone Secretariat before 1 February 2006. The management strategy should aim, among other things:

1. To avoid any increase in methyl bromide consumption except for unforeseen circumstances;
2. To encourage the use of alternatives through the use of expedited procedures, where possible, to develop, register and deploy technically and economically feasible alternatives;
3. To provide information, for each current pre-harvest and post-harvest use for which a nomination is planned, on the potential market penetration of newly deployed alternatives and alternatives which may be used in the near future, to bring forward the time when it is estimated that methyl bromide consumption for such uses can be reduced and/or ultimately eliminated;
4. To promote the implementation of measures which ensure that any emissions of methyl bromide are minimized;
5. To show how the management strategy will be implemented to promote the phase‑out of uses of methyl bromide as soon as technically and economically feasible alternatives are available, in particular describing the steps which the Party is taking in regard to subparagraph (b) (iii) of paragraph 1 of decision IX/6 in respect of research programmes in non-Article 5 Parties and the adoption of alternatives by Article 5 Parties;”