Noting that the Chemical Technical Options Committee has concluded that the nomination of the Russian Federation satisfies the criteria to qualify as essential use under decision IV/25, including the absence of available technically and econom...
Noting with appreciation the work of the Technology and Economic Assessment Panel and its Methyl Bromide Technical Options Committee,
Recognizing the significant reductions made in critical-use nominations for methyl bromide...
Recalling Article 7 of the Montreal Protocol, which mandates, inter alia, reporting on amounts of controlled substances used for feedstock,
Recalling paragraph 1 of decision VII/30, in which, inter alia, the parties specifie...
Recalling the report of the Technology and Economic Assessment Panel on alternatives to hydrochlorofluorocarbons in the refrigeration and air-conditioning sector in parties operating under paragraph 1 of Article 5 with high ambient temperature...
Taking note of paragraph 17 of decision XXIII/10, in which the parties requested the Technology and Economic Assessment Panel to revise its draft guidelines on recusal, taking into account similar guidelines in other multilateral forums,...
Noting with appreciation the report provided by the Ozone Secretariat in response to decision XXIII/11,
To request the Technology and Economic Assessment Panel to provide together with its 2013 progress report an updated vers...
Recalling decisions IX/24, X/8, XI/19 and XIII/5 of the Meeting of the Parties pertaining to new substances,
Noting that the Scientific Assessment Panel has developed procedures for assessing the ozone‑depletion potential ...
Noting that the Multilateral Fund for the Implementation of the Montreal Protocol is an efficient and effective instrument for enabling compliance with the Protocol by parties operating under paragraph 1 of its Article 5,
Recogni...
Noting differences in data on imports and exports of controlled substances submitted by the parties under Article 7 of the Montreal Protocol, and recognizing that while such shipments may have plausible explanations such as shipments over the ...
Noting with appreciation that 194 parties of the 196 that should have reported data for 2011 have done so, and that 99 of those parties reported their data by 30 June 2012 in accordance with decision XV/15,
Noting further th...