Items 3 (d) and 3 (e) of provisional agenda: Reporting Of Data; Ratification Of The Convention, Protocol And Its Amendments; And Report Of The Secretariat On Information Provided By The Parties In Accordance With Article 7

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GENERAL

UNEP/OzL.Pro.12/4
17 October 2000

ORIGINAL: ENGLISH

TWELFTH MEETING OF THE PARTIES TO THE
MONTREAL PROTOCOL ON SUBSTANCES THAT
DEPLETE THE OZONE LAYER

Ouagadougou, 11-14 December 2000

Items 3 (d) and 3 (e) of the provisional agenda of the preparatory segment*

REPORTING OF DATA

RATIFICATION OF THE CONVENTION, PROTOCOL AND ITS AMENDMENTS

REPORT OF THE SECRETARIAT ON INFORMATION PROVIDED BY THE PARTIES IN ACCORDANCE WITH ARTICLE 7 OF THE MONTREAL PROTOCOL ONSUBSTANCES THAT DEPLETE THE OZONE LAYER

A. Introduction

1. The present report contains information received by the Secretariat (as on 16 October 2000) pursuant to Article 7 of the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer.

2. Article 7 of the Montreal Protocol specifies that:

(a) Base-year data * * : Each Party shall provide to the Secretariat, within three months of becoming a Party, statistical data on its production, imports and exports of each of the controlled substances in Annex A for the year 1986, Annexes B and C for the year 1989 and Annex E for 1991 or the best possible estimates of such data where actual data are not available;

(b) Annual data: Each Party shall provide to the Secretariat statistical data on its annual production (as defined in paragraph 5 of Article 1) of each of the controlled substances listed in Annexes A, B, C, and E, and separately for each substance, for the year during which provisions concerning the substances in Annexes A, B, C and E respectively entered into force for that Party and for each year thereafter. Data shall be forwarded not later than nine months after the end of the year to which the data relate;

(c) Annual data on recycling: Each Party shall provide to the Secretariat separate statistical data on its annual imports and exports of each of the controlled substances listed in Group II of Annex A and Group I of Annex C that have been recycled.

B. Status of Ratification of the Montreal Protocol and the London, Copenhagen,
Montreal and Beijing Amendments

3. As on 16 October 2000, 175 Parties had ratified the Montreal Protocol, 142 had ratified the London Amendment and 111 had ratified the Copenhagen Amendment. Only 45 had ratified the Montreal Amendment and the Beijing Amendment had been ratified by one Party (Chile).

C. Status of reporting the base-year and baseline data

4. The Secretariat has analysed the submissions of base-year and baseline data from the Parties.
The following Parties have not reported such data as indicated below:

(a) Base-year (1986) data for Annex A substances:

Parties operating under Article 5:

Overdue by:

6 months - 1 year: Angola and Haiti

1-2 years: Albania, Djibouti and Oman

Over 2 years: Democratic Republic of Congo, Liberia, Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, Marshall Islands, Micronesia (Federated States of), Nepal, Nigeria, Paraguay, Suriname, Tonga and Vanuatu.

Parties not operating under Article 5:

Overdue by:

1-2 years: Armenia

Over 2 years: Tajikistan

(b) Base-year (1989) data for Annex B substances (for those Parties that have ratified the London Amendment):

Parties operating under Article 5:

Overdue by:

6 months-1 year: Haiti

1-2 years: Djibouti and Oman

Over 2 years: Democratic Republic of Congo, Liberia, Marshall Islands, Nepal, Paraguay, Togo and Vanuatu.

Parties not operating under Article 5:

Overdue by:

Over 2 years: Tajikistan.

(c) Base-year (1989) data for Annex C, Group I - HCFCs (for those Parties that have ratified the London Amendment):

Parties operating under Article 5:

Overdue by:

6 months - 1 year: Haiti

1-2 years: Djibouti and Oman

Over 2 years: Democratic Republic of Congo, Liberia, Marshall Islands, Nepal, Paraguay, Togo and Vanuatu.

Parties not operating under Article 5:

Overdue by:

Over 2 years: Tajikistan.

(d) Base-year (1991) data for Annex E substance (for Parties that have ratified the Copenhagen Amendment):

Prties operating under Article 5:

Overdue by:

6 months - 1 year: Fiji

1-2 years: Djibouti, Oman and Saint Kitts and Nevis

Over 2 years: Democratic Republic of Congo, Liberia, Marshall Islands, Togo and Vanuatu.

Parties not operating under Article 5: None.

(e) Baseline data for Annex A substances for Parties operating under Article 5 - average of 1995 - 1997:

The following Parties operating under Article 5 have not reported some or all data for 1995, 1996 or 1997 and the Secretariat is therefore unable to determine their baseline for the phase-out of Annex A substances: Albania, Angola, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Djibouti, Haiti, Honduras, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Liberia, Madagascar, Marshall Islands, Micronesia (Federated States of), Oman, Suriname, Togo, Tonga and Vanuatu.

5. The following Parties are temporarily classified as operating under Article 5 of the Protocol pending submission of baseline data in order to confirm their Article 5 Status: Albania, Angola, Djibouti, Haiti, Liberia, Marshall Islands, Micronesia (Federated States of), Suriname, Tonga and Vanuatu.

6. Decision VI/5, paragraph (a) of the Sixth Meeting of the Parties, held on 6 and 7 October 1994, provides that:

"(ii) A country may only be classified temporarily as operating under Article 5 for a period of two years applicable from the time of adoption of the present decision. After this period, Article 5 status can no longer be extended without data reporting as required by the Protocol, unless the country has sought the assistance of the Executive Committee and the Implementation Committee. In this case, the extension period shall not exceed two years,

(iii)A developing country temporarily classified as operating under Article 5 would lose the status if it does not report baseyear data as required by the Protocol within one year of the approval of its country programme and its institutional strengthening by the Executive Committee, unless otherwise decided by the Meeting of the Parties[.]"

Liberia, Marshall Islands, Micronesia (Federated States of), Tonga and Vanuatu, temporarily classified as operating under Article 5 of the Protocol, have all sought assistance to establish their Country Programmes and indeed in all these Parties except Angola, Djibouti, Haiti and Suriname, preparation of such programmes by UNEP as an implementing agency of the Multilateral Fund is under way.

7. The Secretariat has analysed the status of ODS data-reporting for the years 1986 to 1998 and sent reminders regarding missing data to all the Parties concerned. Forty one (41) Parties not operating under Article 5 and one hundred and two (102) Parties operating under Article 5 have fully complied with the ODS reporting requirements under Article 7 of the Protocol. A list of these Parties is presented in annex 12 below. However, the following eleven Parties have never reported any ODS data for the years 1986 to 1998: Angola, Albania, Djibouti, Haiti, Liberia, Marshall Islands, Micronesia (Federated States of), Oman, Suriname, Tonga and Vanuatu.

8. The Implementation Committee may wish to note the situation of the Parties temporarily classified as operating under Article 5 whose Country Programmes are yet to be approved by the Executive Committee.

Reporting of data for 1998

9. All Parties are required, under Article 7 of the Montreal Protocol, to report to the Secretariat the data for each year. In accordance with Article 7, paragraph 4, members of the European Community are required to report to the Secretariat only the data on production of controlled substances. The Community-wide consumption data are reported by the European Community.

10. An analysis of the data reported by the Parties under Article 7 of the Protocol for the year 1998 is attached as annex 1 to the present report. Of the 166 Parties required to report, 150 Parties (109 Article 5 and 41 non-Article 5) have reported data. The symbol "N.R." has been used throughout the annexes to indicate non-reporting by a Party.

11. Only 82 Parties had reported data for 1998 by 30 September 1999 in accordance with Article 7 of the Protocol. Since then, 68 other Parties have reported data for 1998. The Secretariat has provided, in annexes 1b and 1c to the present report, the respective reporting dates by each Party.

12. The Parties operating under Article 5 that did not report data for 1998 are: Bangladesh, Botswana, Central African Republic, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Liberia, Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, Madagascar, Marshall Islands, Micronesia (Federated States of), Mozambique, Namibia, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Suriname, Togo, Tonga and Vanuatu.

13. Ireland is the only Party not operating under Article 5 that did not report data for 1998.

E. Comments on the data submitted for 1998

14. In the present report, both production and consumption figures are weighted with the ozone-depleting potential of the respective substances. The figures analysed in the present section are for the calendar year January to December 1998. For Article 5 Parties, the production and consumption base for Annex A substances is the baseline value (the average of 1995, 1996 and 1997) whereas for non-Article 5 Parties, the production and consumption base is the base year (1986). The baseline values for Article 5 Parties for Annex A substances are presented in annex 9 to the present report.

15. The Secretariat has reviewed the formulas used by the ODS Database to determine the calculated level of production (CalcProd) and the calculated level of consumption (CalcCons), for 1997 and onwards as provided in Article 3 of the Montreal Protocol. The formulas are based on the definitions included in Articles 1 and 2H, para. 6, and decision VII/30 regarding production, consumption, destruction, feedstock uses and quarantine and pre-shipment (QPS) applications. The formulas used in the database are as follows:

CalcProd = Prod-Destroy-FeedP-FeedE-QuarP
CalcCons = Prod-Destroy-FeedP-QuarP+Imp-FeedI-QuarI-Exp+ExpNP+QuarE
For purposes of these formulas:

(i) Prod is the reported total production (in Form 3, Column 3);

(ii) Destroy is the reported destruction (in Form 4, Column 2);

(iii) FeedP is the reported production for feedstock within the country (in Form 3, Column 4);

(iv) FeedE is the reported export for feedstock use (in Form 2, Column 5);

(v) QuarP is the reported production for quarantine and pre-shipment (QPS) applications within the country and for exports (in Form 3, Column 5) (applicable to methyl bromide only);

(vi) Imp is the reported total import of new material (in Form 1, Column 3);

(vii) FeedI is the reported total import for feedstock (in Form 1, Column 5);

(viii) QuarI is the reported import for Quarantine and Pre-Shipment (QPS) applications (in Form 1, Column 6) (applicable to methyl bromide only);

(ix) Exp is the reported total export of new material (in Form 2, Column 3);

(x) ExpNP is the reported export to non-Parties (in Form 5, Column 3); and

(xi) QuarE is the reported export for Quarantine and Pre-Shipment (QPS) applications (in Form 2, Column 6) (applicable to methyl bromide only).

Inserting in these formulas the quantities reported by each Party in the data forms approved by the Parties in 1997 in decision IX/28 will give the figures for the annual production and consumption presented in this report.

e To determine the figures for production and consumption for the base years (1986, 1989 and 1991), the ODS data is derived from the data forms approved by the Parties in 1993 (included in the Report of the Fifth Meeting of the Parties, Annex I, Forms 1-5).

16. The changes in production and consumption of ODSs in 1998 are shown in table 1, but only for those Parties that have reported data for both 1998 and the base years. Fourteen Parties not operating under Article 5 (Canada, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Greece, Israel, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Russian Federation, Spain, Ukraine, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and United States of America) and nine Parties operating under Article 5 (Argentina, Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Brazil, China, Democratic People's Republic of Korea, India, Mexico, Republic of Korea, Republic of Romania) have reported data greater than zero on production for 1998. For the CFCs, production in the non-Article 5 Parties has decreased by 94.8 per cent and production in Article 5 Parties has decreased by 6.7 per cent. For halons, production in non-Article 5 Parties has decreased by 99.8 per cent and production in Article 5 Parties has decreased by 33.0 per cent. Also noteworthy are the Parties operating under Article 5 that have reported data for 1998, 50 of which have reported zero consumption of halons. Similarly, 63 and 76 of the Article 5 Parties have reported zero consumption of carbon tetrachloride and methyl chloroform respectively.

Table 1

Changes in production and consumption of ODSs in 1998 compared with the baselines,
in percentage (negative figures indicate reduction and positive figures increase)

Group of Substance(s)	Non-Article 5 Parties		Article 5 Parties		All Parties
	Production	Consumption	Production	Consumption	Production	Consumption
A/I⁽¹⁾	-94.8	-97.4	-6.7	-14.0	-86.9	-85.3
A/II⁽¹⁾	-99.8	-99.0	-33.0	-19.3	-86.8	-82.5
B/I	-99.6	-99.2	-	-88.8	-98.8	-96.6
B/II	-98.5	-110.3	-47.6	+21.2	-84.6	-79.7
B/III	-97.5	-99.6	-88.2	-61.9	-97.6	-97.2
C/I⁽²⁾	+83.5	+81.4	+5.4	+112.5	+77.5	+85.4
E/I	-1.2	-23.5	-84.9	+72.1	(1).7	-11.0

(1) For Article 5 Parties, the production and consumption base for Annex A substances is the baseline (the average of 1995, 1996 and 1997), whereas for non-Article 5 parties the production and consumption base is the base year (1986).

(2) The consumption of HCFCs in 1998 is compared to the consumption of HCFCs in 1989 and not to the baseline of Annex C, Group I substances as defined in paragraph 1(a) of Article 2F of the Protocol, i.e., the 1989 HCFC consumption plus 2.8 per cent of the 1989 CFC consumption (see annex 11 to the present report).

17. Figures 1 and 2 show the changes in the production of CFCs and halons between 1986, 1997 and 1998, but only for those Parties that have reported data for all three years. Parties operating under Article 5 have increased production of CFCs in 1998 compared to 1986 (by 127 per cent), but decreased production compared to 1997 (by 8.3 per cent). Halon production in the same Parties increased in 1998 by 169 per cent compared to 1986 but decreased by 39 per cent compared to 1997. Parties not operating under Article 5 decreased production of CFCs and halons in 1998 compared to 1986 and 1997. Figures 3 and 4 show the changes in the consumption of CFCs and halons between 1998 and 1986 and between 1998 and 1997. Parties operating under Article 5 increased consumption of CFCs and halons in 1998 compared to 1986, but the consumption of CFCs in those Parties decreased from 1997 to 1998 by 7.4 per cent and halons decreased by 34.3 per cent. Parties not operating under Article 5 drastically decreased consumption of CFCs and halons in 1998 compared to 1986, but consumption only marginally changed in 1998 compared to 1997. Figures 5 and 7 show production and consumption patterns of CFCs by regions in 1986, 1997 and 1998, and figures 6 and 8 show the same information for halons.

18. The Secretariat analysed the production and consumption data for all Parties with reference to the control measures applicable for 1998. Where the data appears to indicate non-compliance with the control measures, the Parties concerned have been contacted for clarification. In most cases, the deviations are accounted for by approved essential uses or increased production for meeting the basic domestic needs of Parties operating under Article 5.

19. Bulgaria, which according to decision XI/24 was in non-compliance in 1997, reported for 1998 that it had completed its phase-out of Annex A, Group I substances, and prepared a national halon strategy according to decision X/7. Estonia, according to decision X/23, was in non-compliance in 1996, and according to the data submitted for 1998 again deviated from the consumption reduction schedules. However, decision X/23 set consumption reduction benchmarks only for 1999 and onwards. The European Commission submitted in 1998, data on Annex B, Group II substance according to which it deviated from the consumption reduction schedule for that substance. Israel, according to the data submitted for 1998, deviated from the consumption reduction schedule by 3 per cent, but has noted that this situation was corrected in 1999, as is evident from the data submitted by Israel for that year. Kazakhstan submitted data in December 1999 for 1996, 1997 and 1998, according to which it deviated from the consumption reduction schedule in 1998. No decision has yet been taken by the Parties regarding a phase-out plan for Kazakhstan. Turkmenistan, according to decision XI/25, was in non-compliance in 1996 and according to the data submitted in 1998 again deviated from the consumption reduction schedules. Turkmenistan noted that decision XI/25 set reduction benchmarks only for 1999 and onwards. Uzbekistan has reported for 1998 consumption of Annex C, Group II substances, and has not yet provided a clarification for that consumption.

20. Table 2 shows all the cases of deviation from the consumption reduction schedules as revealed by the data submitted for 1998.

Table 2

Deviation from consumption reduction schedules by Parties in 1998

Party	Substance and reduction required						Comments
	A/I	A/II	B/I	B/II	B/III	E/I
	-100%	-100%	-100%	-100%	-100%	Freeze
Australia	-99%			-96%			Approved essential use and laboratory use
Azerbaijan	-62%						Phase-out plan to begin in 2000
Belarus	-90%	-93%	-65%		-91%		Phase-out plan to be completed in 2000
Canada	-99.8%						Approved essential use
Czech Republic	-99.9%						Laboratory use
European Commission	-98.6%			-97.1%	-99.9%		Approved essential use and laboratory use for Annexes A/I & B/II
Estonia	-63%		Increase				Phase-out plan to begin in 1999
Hungary	-99.9%						Approved essential use
Israel						+3%	Situation corrected in 1999
Japan Japan				-99.9%			Laboratory use
Kazakhstan	-15%	-17%		-62%	-83%		No decision on a phase-out plan Decided upon
Latvia	-99.9%						Phase-out plan to begin in 1999
Lithuania	-98%			-94%			Phase-out plan to begin in 2000
Norway				-93%			Laboratory use
Poland	94%			-99.3%			Approved essential use and process agents
Russian Federation	-88%	-99%	-96%	-98%			According to benchmark in the phase-out plan and approved essential use
Slovakia	-99.9%			-99.9%			Laboratory use
Switzerland				-72%	-99.9%		Laboratory use
Turkmenistan	-85%						Phase-out plan began in 1999
United States	-99%						Approved essential use
Ukraine	-77%		+31%	Increase	Increase	Increase	Phase-out plan to begin in 2000
Uzbekistan	-93%						Phase-out plan began in 1999

21. Table 3 shows all cases of deviation from production schedules as revealed by the data submitted for 1998.

Table 3

Deviation from production reduction schedules by Parties in 1998

Party	Substance and reduction required						Comments
	A/I	A/II	B/I	B/II	B/III	E/I
	-100%	-100%	-100%	-100%	-100%	Freeze
Czech Republic	-99.9%			-99%			Laboratory use
France				-86%	-97%		Export to Article 5 Parties
Greece	-95%						Export to Article 5 Parties
Italy	-87%						Export to Article 5 Parties
Japan				-99.9%	-94%		Export to Article 5 Parties and laboratory use
Netherlands	-64%			Increase			Export to Article 5 and production transfer from the USA and UK
Russian Federation	-87%	-98%	-96%	-99.9%			According to benchmark in phase-out plan and approved essential use
Spain	-83%						Export to Article 5 with production transfer from France
United Kingdom	-97%						Export to Article 5 Parties
Ukraine				Increase			No provision in phase-out plan for production
United States	-99.9%			-99.9%	-99%		Export to Article 5 Parties and approved essential use

22. A comparison of the production, import and export of substances by the Parties that have reported data for both the base years and 1998 is attached to the present report as annex 2. The total exports of ODSs from Parties operating under Article 5 decreased from 91,372 tonnes to 72,604 tonnes, while the total exports of Parties not operating under Article 5 decreased from 434,311 tonnes to 167,370 tonnes between 1998 and the base years. The total imports of ODSs to Parties operating under Article 5 increased from 133,257 tonnes to 184,858 tonnes, while the imports of Parties not operating under Article 5 decreased from 270,853 tonnes to 31,710 tonnes between the base years and 1998.

23. The changes in the total quantities of ODSs exported from the non-Article 5 and from the Article 5 Parties in 1998 compared with the baselines are shown in table 4. Exports of CFCs (Annex A, Group I substances) decreased in 1998 in the Article 5 Parties by 14 per cent and halons (Annex A, Group II substances) have decreased 18 per cent compared to the base year, whereas in the non-Article 5 Parties they have decreased by 80 per cent and 99.8 per cent, respectively. However, exports of HCFCs (Annex C, Group I substances) and methyl bromide (Annex E substance) have significantly increased in 1998 in both Article 5 and non-Article 5 Parties compared to the base years.

Table 4

Changes in the exports of ODSs in 1998 compared to the baselines,
in percentage (negative figures indicate reduction and positive figures increase)

Group of Substances	Exports from Parties
	Non-Article 5	Article 5	All Parties
A/I	-80	-11⁽¹⁾	-69
A/II	-99.8	-18⁽¹⁾	-90
B/I	-99	-53	-95
B/II	-35	-31	-34
B/III	-87	-95	-88
C/I	+224	+497	+241
E/I	+26	+23,712⁽²⁾	+27

^{(1) Compared to the baseline (average of 1995 to 1997)

^{(2) These large increases are due to the small export in the base years.}}

24. Exports of methyl bromide in 1998 have been reported by five Parties not operating under Article 5. Overall exports have increased in 1998 by 27 per cent compared to the base year. The total quantity of exports of methyl bromide reported in 1998 was 15 per cent larger than the total quantity of imports reported, which could be explained by quantities of methyl bromide imported but not reported by Parties that have not yet ratified the Copenhagen Amendment.

25. Imports of CFCs to the Parties operating under Article 5 amounted to 91 per cent of the total imports, but exports from these Parties amounted to only 42 per cent of the total exports (see annex 2 below). This indicates that the needs of the Parties operating under Article 5 were satisfied in 1998 in part by exports from Parties not operating under Article 5. It is noteworthy that the total quantity of CFCs exported in 1998 is almost identical to the total quantity imported, whereas the total exports of halons reported in 1998 is 25 per cent smaller than the total amount imported.

26. The following Parties have reported on the types and quantities of Annex A and Annex B substances they exported in 1998 and their destinations, as provided by decision VII/9, paragraph 4: Argentina, Belarus, Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Brazil, Croatia, Czech Republic, European Community, Estonia, France, Japan, Lithuania, Mauritius, Mexico, Netherlands, Republic of Korea, Romania, Russian Federation, Singapore, The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Ukraine and United States of America. The following Parties have reported on the types and quantities of exports of Annex A and B substances but not on the destination of the exports: Antigua and Barbuda, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, India and Turkey.

27. The following Parties reported data on annual imports and/or exports of recovered and reclaimed ODS for 1998: Brazil, Canada, Denmark, Iceland, India, Israel, Latvia, Liechtenstein, New Zealand, Norway, Panama, Republic of Moldova, Slovakia, Switzerland and United States (see annex 4 to the present report). All Parties that have reported exports of recovered and reclaimed ODS have also reported on their recycling facilities. It is noteworthy that the total quantity of recovered ODSs exported in 1998 is 31 per cent larger than the total quantity imported.

28. Parties that have submitted data regarding the global essential-use exemption for laboratory and analytical uses in 1998 are listed in annex 5 to the present report (Australia, Czech Republic, Japan, Norway, Slovakia, Switzerland and United States).

29. According to the information submitted to the Secretariat and from the report of the Technology and Economic Assessment Panel, 2000, all Parties that were required by decision VIII/9, paragraph 9, to report their accounts of essential use exemptions for 1998 have done so. These are: Australia, Canada, European Community, Hungary, Japan, Poland, Russian Federation, Switzerland and United States.

30. The following Parties have submitted their reporting account for 1999: Australia, Canada, European Community, Hungary, Japan, Poland and United States. Parties that have not submitted their reporting account for 1999: Russian Federation.

31. Annex 6 to the present report provides an analysis of data on 1998 ODS production and consumption in five regions (Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean and Western Europe and Others) for groups of substances as compared to the baselines. Table 5 shows the regional distribution of the production and consumption of CFCs and halons in 1998.

Table 5

Regional distribution in 1998 of the production and consumption
of CFCs and halons, in percentage of the global total

Group of Substances		Region
Group of Substances		Africa	Asia	Eastern Europe	Latin America and the Caribbean	Western Europe and Others
A/I	Production	0.0	55.2	9.4	13.5	21.9
A/I	Consumption	4.7	63.5	10.3	16.6	4.9
A/II	Production	0.0	99.9	0.1	0.0	0.0
A/II	Consumption	3.8	93.9	1.4	0.9	0.0

F. Data for the year 1997

32. The 1997 data were analysed and placed before the Eleventh Meeting of the Parties in 1999. Since then, more data have been received from the Parties. In total, 156 Parties (116 operating under Article 5 and 40 not operating under Article 5) have reported, out of the 166 Parties required to report. Annex 7 to the present report contains an analysis of the updated 1997 data.

33. The changes in production and consumption of ODSs in 1997 are shown in table 6. Fourteen Parties not operating under Article 5 (Canada, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Greece, Israel, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Russian Federation, Spain, Ukraine, United Kingdom and United States) and nine Parties operating under Article 5 (Argentina, Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Brazil, China, Democratic People's Republic of Korea, India, Mexico, Republic of Korea and Romania) have reported production of ODSs in 1997. For CFCs, production in the non-Article 5 Parties has decreased by 95 per cent while production in the Article 5 Parties has increased by 96 per cent. For the halons, production in the non-Article 5 Parties has decreased by 99.5 per cent, while production in Article 5 has increased by 338 per cent.

Table 6

Changes in production and consumption of ODSs in 1997 compared to the base years, in percentage (negative figures indicate reduction and positive figures increase)

Group of Substances	Non-Article 5 Parties		Article 5 Parties		All Parties
Group of Substances	Production	Consumption	Production	Consumption	Production	Consumption
A/I	-95	-98	+96	+2	-85	-84
A/II	-99.5	-99	+338	+7	-74	-77
B/I	-98	-98	-	-76	-97	-92
B/II	-100.1	-113	-95	-89	-99	-106
B/III	-97	-100	-90	-64	-97	-97
C/I*	+62.7	+60.2	+93.7	+162.4	+65.1	+73.4
E/I	-9	-15	-96	+59	-9	-5

* The consumption of HCFCs in 1997 is compared to the consumption of HCFCs in 1989 and not to the baseline of the Annex C, Group I, substances as defined in paragraph 1(a) of Article 2F of the Protocol, i.e., the 1989 HCFC consumption plus 2.8 per cent of the 1989 CFC consumption (see annex 11 to this report).

G. Data for the year 1999

34. All Parties are required by Article 7 of the Protocol to report to the Secretariat the data for 1999 by the end of September 2000. As of 16 October 2000, 95 Parties have done so. The 57 Parties operating under Article 5 that have not yet reported data for 1999 are: Albania, Bahamas, Bangladesh, Belize, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Burundi, Chad, Chile, China, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Croatia, Cyprus, Djibouti, Dominican Republic, Ethiopia, Fiji, Grenada, India, Kiribati, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, Maldives, Mali, Marshall Islands, Micronesia (Federated States of), Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Nepal, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Oman, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Qatar, Republic of Korea, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Saudi Arabia, Solomon Islands, Sri Lanka, Suriname, Syrian Arab Republic, Togo, Tonga, United Arab Emirates, Vanuatu, Yemen, Yugoslavia and Zambia. The 21 Parties not operating under Article 5 that have not yet reported data for 1999 are: Australia, Austria, Belgium, European Community, Finland, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Japan, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Russian Federation, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkmenistan, United States and Uzbekistan). Annex 8 to the present report contains a preliminary analysis of the 1999 data. For Article 5 Parties, the consumption base for Annex A substances is the baseline year (the average of 1995, 1996 and 1997), whereas for non-Article 5 Parties the consumption base is the base year (1986). For the formulas used to calculate the production and the consumption in 1999, see paragraph 15 above.

35. For Article 5 Parties, the production and consumption base for the substance in Annex E is the baseline value (the average of 1995, 1996, 1997 and 1998) whereas for non-Article 5 Parties the production and consumption base is the base year (1991). The baseline values for Article 5 Parties for the substance in Annex E are presented in Annex 10 to the present report.

All Annexes