Handbook for the Montreal Protocol on Substances
that Deplete the Ozone Layer - 7th Edition (2006) |
Seventeenth Meeting of the Parties
[Source: Annex to Decision XVII/9]
Table A. 2006 agreed critical-use categories
| Country |
Categories of permitted
critical uses (metric tonnes) |
| Belgium |
Antique structures and furniture (0.199),
Artefacts and structures (0.307), Asparagus (0.225), Berry fruit (0.621),
Chicory (0.18), Churches, monuments and ships’ quarters (0.059),
Cucumber (0.545), Cut flowers (1.956), Electronic equipment (0.035),
Empty silo (0.043), Endive (1.65), Flour mill (0.072), Flour mills (4.17),
Food premises (0.03), Mills (0.2), Nursery (0.384), Old buildings (0.306),
Old buildings (0.282), Pepper and eggplant (1.35), Strawberry runners
(0.9), Tomato (protected) (4.5), Tree nursery (0.155), Woodworking premises
(0.101) |
| Germany |
Artefacts (0.1), mills and processors (19.35) |
| Greece |
Dried fruit (3.081), Cucurbits (19.2), Cut
flowers (6.0), Mills and processors (15.445), Rice and legumes (2.355),
Tomatoes (73.6) |
| Ireland |
Mills (0.888) |
| Italy |
Mills and processors (65.0) |
| Japan |
Chestnut (0.3), Cucumber (1.2), Melon (32.3),
Peppers (green & hot) (13.5), Watermelon (38.0) |
| Latvia |
Grains (2.502) |
| Malta |
Cucumber (0.127), Eggplant (0.17), Strawberry
(0.212), Tomatoes (0.594) |
| Netherlands |
Strawberry runners (0.12) |
| Poland |
Coffee, cocoa beans (2.160) |
| Portugal |
Cut flowers (8.75) |
| Spain |
Rice (42.065) |
United Kingdom |
Cereal processing plants (8.131), Cheese
stores (1.248), Cut flowers (6.05), Dried commodities (rice, fruits and
nuts) Whitworths (1.256), Herbs and spices (0.037), Mills (Nabim) (10.195),
Mills and processors (biscuits) (1.787), Structures (herbs and spices)
(1.872), Structures, processors and storage Whitworths (0.880) |
United States of America |
Dried beans (7.07) |
Table B: 2006 permitted levels of production and consumption
| Country |
Methyl bromide (metric
tonnes) |
| Belgium* |
18.270 |
| Germany* |
19.450 |
| Greece* |
119.681 |
| Ireland* |
0.888 |
| Italy* |
65.000 |
| Japan |
85.300 |
| Latvia* |
2.502 |
| Malta* |
1.103 |
| Netherlands* |
0.120 |
| Poland* |
2.160 |
| Portugal* |
8.750 |
| Spain* |
42.065 |
| United Kingdom* |
31.456 |
* The production and consumption of the European Community shall not exceed 311.445 metric tonnes for the purposes of the agreed critical uses.
Table C: 2007 agreed critical-use categories
| Country |
Categories of permitted
critical uses (metric tonnes) |
| Australia |
Rice (consumer packs) (5.13), Strawberry runners (35.75) |
| Canada |
Flour mills (30.167), Strawberry runners PEI (7.995),
Strawberry runners Quebec (1.826) |
| Japan |
Chestnuts (6.5), Cucumbers (72.4), Ginger
field (109.701), Ginger protected (14.471), Melon (182.2), Peppers green
and hot (156.7), Watermelon (94.2) |
| United States of America |
Cucurbits (592.891), Dry commodities/structures
cocoa beans (64.082), Dried fruit and nuts (78.983), Dry commodities/structures
(processed foods, herbs & spices, dried milk and cheese processing
facilities) NPMA (82.771), Dry cure pork products (building and product)
(18.998), Eggplant field (85.363), Forest nursery seedlings (122.032),
Mills and processors (401.889), Nursery stock - fruit trees, raspberries,
roses (28.275), Orchard replant (405.400), Ornamentals (137.835), Peppers
field (1106.753), Strawberry fruit field (1476.019), Strawberry runners
(4.483), Tomato field (2065.246), Turf grass (78.040) |
Table D: 2007 permitted levels of production and consumption
| Country |
Methyl bromide (metric
tonnes) |
| Australia |
40.88 |
| Canada |
39.988 |
| Japan |
636.172 |
| United States of America |
5,149.060 |
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