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The Governments of Austria and Japan recommended that the Executive Committee request the Secretariat to undertake a study with the aim of providing information and recommendations on collection and disposal/destruction of redundant ozone-depleting substances (ODS) with special attention to the following aspects:
(a) actual current need of collection and disposal of unwanted and/or non-reusable ODS taking into account existing reclamation capacity and possibility to reuse ODS in other countries with remaining demand;
(b) possible synergies with global need to handle and dispose persistent organic pollutants and hazardous wastes, as covered by the Stockholm and Basel Conventions;
(c) possible options and related costs associated with measures against unwanted and/or non-reusable ODS, both from diluted and concentrated sources, including construction and operations of such hazardous waste destruction facility and use of existing facility and establishment of regional management capacity;
(d) options on how to ensure that destruction does not result in additional production or imports of ODS;
(e) existing global capacity for disposal of waste ODS taking into account acceptance of ODS import for the purpose of destruction;
(f) key measures that would be needed to ensure sustainability of initiatives/investments to handle ODS based upon normal market business models.
(UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/46/47, Decision 46/36, para. 156).
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