Extract from Sixteenth Meeting of the Parties to the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer
(UNEP/OzL.Pro.16/17)

Decision XVI/2(4): Critical use exemptions for methyl bromide for 2005 and 2006

“4.        That each Party which has an agreed critical use should ensure that the criteria in paragraph 1 of decision IX/6 are applied when licensing, permitting or authorizing critical use of methyl bromide and that such procedures take into account available stocks of banked or recycled methyl bromide. Each Party is requested to report on the implementation of the present paragraph to the Ozone Secretariat”