Extract from Fifteenth meeting of the Parties to the Montreal Protocol on Substances that deplete the Ozone Layer
(UNEP/OzL.Pro.15/9)

Decision XV/5(4). Promoting the closure of essential-use nominations for metered-dose inhalers

“4.          That no quantity of CFCs for essential uses shall be authorized after the commencement of the Seventeenth Meeting of the Parties if the nominating Party not operating under paragraph 1 of Article 5 has not submitted to the Ozone Secretariat, in time for consideration by the Parties at the twenty-fifth meeting of the Open-ended Working Group, a plan of action regarding the phase-out of the domestic use of CFC-containing metered-dose inhalers where the sole active ingredient is salbutamol;”